When British soldiers approached, Elizabeth Bennett Young, the wife of an Isle of Wight County deputy clerk, spirited the county records away and buried them.
Cardinal News 250
Podcast about how an Isle of Wight woman saved her county’s records from being burned
Cardinal 250 podcast host Dutchie Jessee talks with Isle of Wight Museum Director Jennifer England about how Elizabeth Bennett Young saved those records, and why they’re so valuable.
William Fleming, Virginia’s oft-overlooked acting governor, presided during a Revolutionary War crisis
When Thomas Jefferson’s term expired without a successor being chosen, this doctor from the Roanoke Valley took charge for eight eventful days.
William Fleming’s gravesite gets an overdue cleanup
The doctor who served as acting governor during a crucial period of the Revolution is buried in Roanoke.
Dispatch from 1775: King George refuses to read peace offer, declares Colonies to be in rebellion
The Continental Congress tried to assure the king that its argument was with Parliament, not him. But now the king has picked sides and vowed to crush “traitors” in the Colonies.
Roanoke County girl is one of 75 winners in nationwide contest: ‘What does America mean to you?’
The contest was sponsored by America250, the commission that leds the national celebration of America’s 250th birthday in 2026.
Why Patrick Henry never had a mansion the way other famous founders did
This Founding Father preferred simplicity, “not like these other guys.”
An idyllic neighborhood in Albemarle County once housed 4,000 British and German prisoners of war
The well-known Barracks Road Shopping Center takes its name from a Revolutionary War barracks that housed prisoners.
Blacksburg became home for Albemarle Barracks prisoner
The Linkous family can trace its roots to a Revolutionary War POW who was hired out as an indentured servant to a Patriot leader in the New River Valley.
Dispatch from 1775: Exiled to a British ship in the James River, royal governor says ‘every part’ of Virginia is ‘resisting’ him
With the governor having fled, the Governor’s Palace is ransacked and the governor’s property sold at auction.