State approves twelve new historical highway makers including one in Stafford for artist Palmer Haydon from Widewater

The Washington Monument reopens today. What you should know before going for a visit…

VIDEO: Stafford Supervisors with a proclamation recognizing Constitution Week

The trip will trace the Freedom Ride route thru the south

VIDEO: The Mary Washington House observed the death 230 years ago on August 25th of Mary Washington with a wreath laying at her monument on Washington Avenue in Fredericksburg.

VIDEO: Bells tolled in Fredericksburg on August 25 to mark the 1619 landing of the first Africans in English North America. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Chief Historian John Hennessy led a program reflecting on the anniversary and its meaning.

VIDEO: Church bells ring for four minutes Sunday afternoon nationally and in downtown Fredericksburg. Here’s the view from Chatham

There’s an NPS program at 2:30 Sunday at Chatham leading up to bells ringing downtown at 3

VIDEO: Sunday is the 230th anniversary of the death of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. There’s a special program (tickets required) at the Mary Washington House from 7-8. We talked with Michelle Hamilton about the passing of Mary Washington.

AUDIO:Scott Harris, the Executive Director of the University of Mary Washington Museums talks about the role The James Monroe Museum and Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont plays in the region.

VIDEO: The Fredericksburg Area Museum and the Rappahannock Chapter of the American Red Cross teamed up for the Spirit of 45–a WWII themed blood drive. A chance to help the Red Cross with blood donations & learn about the past and present role of the Red Cross.

PHOTOS: The downtown branch of the Central Rappahannock Regional Library hosted a Patawomeck Village over the weekend.

AUDIO: The Spirit of 45. The Fredericksburg Area Museum and the Rappahannock Area Chapter of the American Red Cross teaming up for the Spirit of 45 Day on August 10 at the Museum at Market Square. 

VIDEO: The final program of the season for History at Sunset was at Belmont in Stafford County on Saturday night. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Chief Historian John Hennessy says this region pivoted toward succession from the Union with the inauguration of President Lincoln…

PHOTOS: The Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park’s wildly popular History at Sunset programs concluded Saturday night at Belmont. Not the Gari Melcher’s Belmont we hear about, but the Civil War Belmont. Chief Historian John Hennessy and Scott Harris, Executive Director of UMW Museums, led the program.

VIDEO: The Fredericksburg Fair hasn’t always been at its current location. During a recent History at Sunset program, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Chief Historian John Hennessy described the fair on the land near Marye’s Heights and Brompton that would became known for its role in the Battle of Fredericksburg…

VIDEO: The 2019 archaeology dig at George Washington’s boyhood home, Ferry Farm in Stafford, is winding down. The director of archaeology for The George Washington Foundation says the site continues to produce surprises.

VIDEO: Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park Chief Historian John Hennessy talked about the closing and then rehabilitation of the Sunken Road in Fredericksburg at History at Sunset over the weekend…

VIDEO: The Sunken Road is known primarily for the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862. Historian Hilary Grabowska with the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Military Park on the road’s non-war background…

PHOTOS: About 150 people at History at Sunset on Saturday night. John Hennessy and Hilary Grabowska with the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park led a program at the Sunken Road.