Lineage, Land, and Legacy: Early Northern Neck Families and Their Beginnings
This blog is by Walker Hatch, VCU history major and Menokin spring 2025 intern. As the economic viability of the Virginia colony became clear, prominent lineages of English gentlemen took notice. After the South bank of the Potomac River was officially patented by the Virginia colony in 1648, those fleeing from the conflict in Maryland […]
Cataloging Richmond’s Jewish History
This blog is by Mary Moody McLean, M.A. in History and a Certificate in Public History December 2023. Below the staircase at Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives (BAMA) rests a large stone with unnatural craters. These dents resulted from bullets fired by the Nazi Sturmabteilung paramilitary and Schutzstaffel paramilitary forces on November 9, 1938 in […]
Historic Christ Church, New Discoveries of the Past
This blog is by Kayla Payne, certificate in public history December 2023. Located in Weems, Virginia in Lancaster County is Historic Christ Church and Museum. Built by free, indentured, and enslaved craftsmen and designed and financed by the wealthy planter Robert “King” Carter in 1735, the Anglican parish still stands today and anchors a museum […]
