Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities

Emma Leake Chenoweth was already 61 years old when she founded the Yorktown chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1922.     But age didn't keep her from attempting something that a lot of people thought was crazy.     Marshalling...

Sometime in the fall of 1712, a gang of Williamsburg brickmakers began firing tens of thousands of bricks for what would become one of colonial America's most indelible landmarks. Completed three years later, Bruton Parish Church has long been...

Despite the stillness that fell across the killing fields of Williamsburg when the bloody battle of May 5, 1862 ended, the struggle to decide the town’s fate was far from over. Inside the houses lining Duke of Gloucester Street, the daughters...

The Chamberlin Hotel at Fort Monroe has received the 2009 Outstanding Commercial Project Award from APVA Preservation Virginia for excellence in the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of a historic Virginia structure. Funded by local investors and...

South Florida's Hillsboro Inlet Light near Pompano Beach is among five lighthouses in the U.S. Postal Service's latest set of lighthouse commemoratives. The 37-cent self-adhesive stamps -- as well as 23-cent postal cards featuring the lighthouses -- will...

Women helped shape the Peninsula we know today, but their contributions are sometimes overlooked or obscured. Here are ten women who contributed to the physical, spiritual and cultural growth of this community. Some managed to make a mark on the world....

A dozen days before 2007, organizers are hitting more milestones in preparing for Jamestown's 400th anniversary. A $7.4 million visitor center was unveiled Tuesday at Historic Jamestowne, the site of the New World's first permanent English settlement....