With Chestnut Hill occupied by his brother, the young couple set out to establish their new home on Virginia's western frontier on a more distant parcel of land granted to his father by King George II, in newly established Bedford County.

The changes resulted in the two areas having Virginia's cities with the largest land areas and the most farming, even over 30 years after the consolidations in some instances.

Beginning in 1865, Huntington had been acquiring land in Virginia's eastern Tidewater region, an area not served by extant railroads.

The treaty of 1677 between the King of England, acting through the Governor of Virginia, and several Native American tribes including the Pamunkey is the most important existing document describing Virginia's relationship towards Indian land.

The changes resulted in the area having Virginia's cities with the largest land areas and the most farming, even over 30 years after the consolidations in some instances.

Mahone personally retained his ownership of land investments which were linked to the N & W's development of the rich coal fields of western Virginia and southern West Virginia, contributing to his rank as one of Virginia's wealthiest men at his death, according to his biographer, author Nelson Blake.

At only, it is Virginia's smallest county in land area ( and by some reckonings, the smallest county in the United States ).

However, Virginia's portion was returned to that state in 1846 ; all the land in present-day D. C. was once part of Maryland.

In 1969, a 10, 000-acre ( 40 km² ) tract of land known as The Big Survey, located in the heart of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and home to a wide variety of forestry, timberland, and wildlife, was purchased by a group of investors.

The Shawnee were the main target of these attacks, and his purpose was to strengthen Virginia's claims in the west, particularly in the Ohio Country.

After the brief war, which ended soon after Virginia's victory in the Battle of Point Pleasant in October 1774, Shawnees relinquished their claims to Kentucky.

The other states with claims in the Northwest eventually followed Virginia's example, and in 1787, the Continental Congress enacted the Northwest Ordinance, which created the Northwest Territory.

Virginia's official claims to the island, however, continued until 1776.

Pennsylvania later established Westmoreland County with its seat at Hannastown, overlapping Virginia's claims.

As president of Virginia's constitutional convention in the fall of 1829, Monroe reiterated his belief that slavery was a blight which, even as a British colony, Virginia had attempted to eradicate.

The celebrations highlighted contributions from Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans, each of which had a significant part in shaping Virginia's history.

After the British Parliament overruled Virginia's Two Penny Act, which had limited the established clergy's salaries, the Reverend James Maury filed suit against the vestry of Louisa County for payment of back wages.

Lord Fairfax had built a summer home there and a " private bath " making the area a popular destination for Virginia's social elite.

The Mingo, who resided in the Tygart Valley and along the Ohio River in present-day West Virginia's Northern Panhandle region, and the Delaware, who lived in present-day eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, but had several autonomous settlements as far south as present-day Braxton County, also used the area as a hunting ground.

After having had an earlier argument about Virginia's sexual trysts with drummer Gene Krupa, and a variety of bull fighters, Virginia makes a romantic move on Ben, in the dining room.

A Few Good Men had its world premiere at the Heritage Repertory Theatre at the University of Virginia's Department of Drama on September 19, 1989.

At Manassas they were adjacent to Virginia's interior, and had good railroad and road connections to it.

Lord Fairfax had built a summer home there and a " private bath " making the area a popular destination for Virginia's social elite.

Thomas Jefferson, who had just finished his final term as Virginia's governor, responded to this query with a manuscript that later became his famous " Notes on the State of Virginia ".

Virginia's House of Burgesses adopts ( May 29 ) the Virginia Resolves claiming that, under British law, Virginians could be taxed only by an assembly to which they had elected representatives.

The battle was a part of the effort of the Confederacy to break the Union blockade, which had cut off Virginia's largest cities, Norfolk and Richmond, from international trade.

Wythe had tried to overturn two decades of Virginia's accepting slavery after it had made the Declaration of Rights.

During this time, Northern Virginia's Pentagram also had a heavy influence on the Maryland scene.

Both sides believed that the first side to use force would lose precious political support in the border states, whose allegiance was undetermined ; before Lincoln's inauguration on March 4, five states had voted against secession, including Virginia, and Lincoln openly offered to evacuate Fort Sumter if it would guarantee Virginia's loyalty.

It can also be attributed to the misimpression that both houses of Virginia's legislature had adopted the TONA — again, when apparently only one of its houses did so.

Lee's decision also allowed the Army of Virginia's II Corps, under Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks, to consolidate with the bulk of Pope's army, marching in from Bristoe Station, where they had been guarding the army's trains.

After the January 2002 decision was handed down, Harvey applied to Virginia's Fairfax Circuit Court for DNA testing based on a 2001 law allowing felons increased access to potentially exculpatory biological evidence that had not previously been subjected to the current DNA testing method.

In the 1990s, he worked as a media consultant for several campaigns, including Jim Moran's 1990 victory over Republican Stan Parris in Virginia's 8th Congressional District and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky's 1992 win in Pennsylvania's 13th Congressional District, which had not been won by a Democrat since 1904.

Strong governorships in other states, such as New York, were at the center of political machines kept together by patronage and corruption, he said, and the reason Virginians had not suffered from those ills was that there was no point in fighting for control of Virginia's weak governorship.

The University of Virginia's victory ended the then-recent run by UCLA, which had won the two previous national championships.

Martin had been widely regarded as the head of Virginia's Democratic Party, a role filled during the 1920s by Harry Flood Byrd of Winchester, another Virginia newspaperman who shared many of Glass's political views and who headed the political machine of Conservative Democrats known as the Byrd Organization, which dominated Virginia's politics until the 1960s.

The Opequon forms part of the boundary between Frederick and Clarke counties in Virginia and also partially forms the boundary between Berkeley and Jefferson counties in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle.

* Consolatio Philosophiae in the original Latin with English comments at the University of Virginia's Library Electronic Text Center.

Governor Dinwiddie rewarded Washington in 1755 with a commission as " Colonel of the Virginia Regiment and Commander in Chief of all forces now raised in the defense of His Majesty's Colony " and gave him the task of defending Virginia's frontier.

Lee's family is one of Virginia's first families, originally arriving in Virginia from England in the early 1600s with the arrival of Richard Lee I, Esq., " the Immigrant " ( 1618 – 64 ).

Virginia's boundary with Maryland and Washington, D. C. extends to the low-water mark of the south shore of the Potomac River.

The story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted in 1932 into an NBC produced cantata ( the only known editorial set to classical music ) and an Emmy Award-winning animated television special in 1974, animated by Bill Meléndez ( best known for his work on the various Peanuts specials ) and featuring the voices of Jim Backus, Susan Silo and Courtney Lemmon, with theme song performed by Jimmy Osmond.

One was The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, connecting Virginia's eastern shore with its mainland and is approximately long ; it has trestle bridges as well as two stretches of two-mile ( 3 km )- long tunnels which allow unimpeded shipping ; the bridge is supported by four man-made islands.

These two deaths with the addition of January's Sago Mine disaster and the Aracoma Alma Mine disaster caused West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin to close all of West Virginia's mines in a " mine safety stand-down.

In 1730, John Van Meter, with his brother Isaac ( 1692 – 1757 ), secured a patent for at the South Branch Potomac River, much of it located in present-day Berkeley County, from Virginia's Colonial Lieutenant Governor William Gooch.

Of Virginia's larger metro areas, Forbes Magazine ranked Lynchburg the 5th best place in Virginia for business in 2006, with Virginia being the best state in the country for business.

Also retarding settlement was a border dispute with Virginia ; Virginia's District of West Augusta and Pennsylvania's Westmoreland County both claim the area.

The town, with an area of, is located on U. S. Route 13 on Virginia's Eastern Shore, approximately five miles south of Exmore and north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.

Bolivar ( rhymes with Oliver ) is a town in Jefferson County in the U. S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle.

Later stones, each addressed to John White and signed with the name of Virginia's mother, Eleanor, called for revenge against the " savages " or gave her father the direction taken by the survivors.

Currently, thirty-eight of Virginia's thirty-nine cities have a council – manager form of government, with the capital, Richmond, being the only exception.

However, as of April 1, 2007, West Virginia's Democratic Party opened its voting to allow " individuals who are not affiliated with any existing recognized party to participate in the election process ".

WVU Extension Service provides outreach with offices in all of West Virginia's 55 counties.

With Thomas Jefferson and George Wythe, he revised Virginia's law code after the break with Britain.

Pendleton is credited with modifying the statement of universal rights of all men in Virginia's declaration into a form which could be supported by slave owners, easing its passage.

He, along with Thomas Jefferson and George Wythe, revised Virginia's law code.

Virginia's bow ram got stuck in the enemy ship's hull, and as Cumberland listed and began to go down, she almost pulled Virginia under with her.

In addition, census city lists from 2007 include Arlington County, Virginia's CDP in the list with the incorporated places.

With the children gone — their son and one daughter are at college, while the other daughter has married a much older widower with two grown-up children and has also flown the nest — and Oliver frequently in New York to supervise the staging of his plays, Virginia's life becomes increasingly empty.