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News-Gazette [5] Lexington 1801 [9] Weekly ... Began as City and Tri-County News: King George Journal Press: ... The Virginia Gazette, ...
The Virginia Mountaineer is a weekly community newspaper focusing on Buchanan County, Virginia and surrounding areas in Central Appalachia. It is located out of Grundy, Virginia . This article about a Virginia newspaper is a stub .
An hour into a routine training flight from the USS Lexington (CV-16) over the Gulf of Paria off Venezuela, 1939 Heisman Trophy winner Ensign Nile Kinnick, USNR, develops severe oil leak at 0951 hrs., cannot recover to either the carrier or land, and ditches his Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat, BuNo 12042, at Lat. 10° 28' N, Long. 62° 02' 15" W, at ...
Lou Whittaker, a legendary American mountaineer who helped lead ascents of Mount Everest, K2 and Denali, and who taught generations of climbers during his more than 250 trips up Mount Rainier, the ...
The city council in Lexington voted unanimously Thursday to adopt a law changing the name of Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery to Oak Grove Cemetery, news outlets reported.
Francis Henney Smith (1812–1890): First superintendent of VMI, Confederate Army colonel, Virginia militia major general William D. Washington (1833–1870): Painter, instructor at VMI John Delane Wilson (1931–2013): President of Washington and Lee University (1983–1995) and Wells College (1969–1975); first Rhodes Scholar from Michigan ...
Rockbridge County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 22,650. [ 1 ] Its county seat is the city of Lexington . [ 2 ]
In 1893 W. C. Johnston brought the name Virginia Gazette back to Williamsburg in newspaper form, but unrelated to its colonial predecessors. An Ohio native and an alumnus of the College of William and Mary, Johnston served as clerk of the Williamsburg city council, member of the board of registrars and the Williamsburg Business Association, and postmaster.