The first seven presidents listed as Episcopalians were all from Virginia.

The House appointed Randolph to draft objections to the act, but his more conservative plan was trumped when Henry obtained passage of five of his seven Virginia Stamp Act Resolutions.

* February 25 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia ( the 500 prisoners had left Richmond, Virginia seven days before ).

When Gardner was seven years old, the family decided to try their luck in a larger city, Newport News, Virginia, where Mollie Gardner found work managing a boarding house for the city's many shipworkers.

The 17th century saw an increase in shipments with enslaved people arriving in the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, although these first kidnapped Africans were classed as indentured servants and freed after seven years ; chattel slavery entered Virginia law in 1656.

The Greater Richmond area is served by the Richmond International Airport, located in nearby Sandston, seven miles ( 11 km ) southeast of Richmond and within an hour drive of historic Williamsburg, Virginia.

In accordance with the act, several states, " seven of the eleven southern states of the former confederacy " – Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia — were subjected to the procedure of preclearance in 1965, while Texas, home to the majority of the African American population at the time, followed in 1975.

After a year of living with his daughter, Ida, and her husband Michel Gordey, he entered into a romance with Virginia Haggard, great-niece of the author Henry Rider Haggard ; their relationship endured seven years.

Its seven districts are located in Buffalo, Chicago, Detroit, Louisville, Nashville, Pittsburgh, and Huntington, West Virginia.

Virginia Beach from spaceWhen the modern city of Virginia Beach was created in 1963, by the consolidation of the Princess Anne County with the City of Virginia Beach, the newly larger city was divided into seven boroughs: Bayside, Blackwater, Kempsville, Lynnhaven, Princess Anne, Pungo, and Virginia Beach.

As one of the seven major cities that compose the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, it is on the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula.

There are seven Girl Scout councils serving girls in Virginia ; three are headquartered in the state.

Its been called the " Warehouse capital of the U. S ." because of the seven warehouse / factories including Target Corporation distribution ( T-560 ), Hershey Chocolate of Virginia, McKee Little Debbie, Hollister Inc, Nibco, Ply Gem, and Sayre factory.

The design was the only standard bomber used by the Air Service until 1930 and was used by seven squadrons of the Air Service / Air Corps: four in Virginia, two in Hawaii, and one in the Philippines.

Counties of the metropolitan areaThe U. S. Census Bureau defines the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA as 16 county-level jurisdictions -- seven counties and eight independent cities in Virginia, and one county in North Carolina.

In 1900, five of seven clothing merchants in Clarksburg, West Virginia, were Jewish, and into the 1930s the Jews here were primarily merchants.

Nanny Logan Delany was born in a community then known as Yak, Virginia, seven miles from Danville.

Thereafter the individual corps, seven of which remained in Virginia, reported directly to army headquarters.

Born in Augusta County, Virginia, George Caleb Bingham was the second of seven children of Mary Amend and Henry Vest Bingham.

It was one of a record 40 tornadoes to hit northern Virginia that day.

From April 3 to April 4, 1974, there were 148 tornadoes confirmed in 13 US states, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and New York ; and the Canadian province of Ontario

Frances also spawned 101 tornadoes from Florida to as far north as Virginia, shy of the single storm tornado record set during Hurricane Beulah.

The tornado is considered one of the strongest tornadoes to strike the state of Virginia in recent history and the worst to strike Hampton Roads since a tornado spawned by the remnants of Tropical Storm Dennis nine years before.

The outbreak spawned 17 tornadoes in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, and was responsible for a combined total of $ 169 million dollars in damage in the four states.

The 1988 Raleigh tornado outbreak of November 28, 1988 was the most destructive of the seven tornadoes reported in northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia between 1: 00 AM and 5: 45 AM The Raleigh tornado produced over $ 77 million in damage, along with four fatalities ( two in the city of Raleigh, and two in Nash County ) and 154 injuries.

Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska were affected on the 27th ; tornadoes were reported in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia on the 28th.

McClure's home in Abingdon, Virginia suffered major damage in an April 27, 2011 tornado ( part of a major outbreak of tornadoes that hit across the South April 27-28 ); McClure, his wife and three children sat out the storm in their basement and were uninjured.

Buckhannon is home to West Virginia Wesleyan College and the West Virginia Strawberry Festival, held annually on the third week of May.

This fully functional replica received special legislation from the Virginia General Assembly to produce up to of whiskey annually, for sale only at the Mount Vernon gift shop.

The CNU has met annually since 1993 when they held their first general meeting in Alexandria, Virginia, with approximately 100 attendees.

The Johnnie Johnson Blues & Jazz Festival is held annually in Fairmont West Virginia, only a few blocks from where Johnson was born.

The North American Sand Soccer Championships, a beach soccer tournament, is held annually on the beach in Virginia Beach.

In 1850, Virginia set aside $ 30, 000 annually for five years to aid and support emigration.

Offering nearly 80 departures daily to major cities throughout the United States, Norfolk International presently is the third-busiest airport in Virginia and is ranked as the country's 66th largest airport in terms of passengers served annually, with over 3. 5 million passengers served in 2009.

The Division III championship game, known as the Stagg Bowl, has been played annually in Salem, Virginia at Salem Football Stadium since 1993.

The organization, founded in 1947 by late West Virginia historian and publisher Jim Comstock, voted to move its offices to the A – B campus in 1976 where it has met annually ever since.

Two schools in Virginia are named for him, including Mills E. Godwin High School in suburban Henrico, where the Becky Godwin Memorial Award is given annually to a senior selected by classmates, and Godwin Middle School in Prince William County.

The Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival, a six-day festival held annually in Winchester, Virginia, is known for its many guest celebrities and events.

Wesley Chapel annually hosts the West Virginia United Methodist Annual Conference each June.

Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, NSBE offers academic excellence programs, scholarships, leadership training, professional development and access to career opportunities for thousands of members annually.

It is held annually in mid-August on the State Fairgrounds in Fairlea, near Lewisburg, West Virginia in the southeastern part of the state.

* 2008, the Library of Virginia honored her as one of the eight " Virginia Women in History " selected annually.

Virginia ’ s first Constitution, adopted in 1776, provided a Council of State from which a President was annually selected from its members.

He has his own tournament, held annually in Charlottesville, Virginia.

From 1992 until his death from a heart attack in 1996 he was a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, which annually awards the Levis Reading Prize in his remembrance ( articles about Levis and the prize are featured each year in Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts ).

Pursuant to the West Virginia Code ( chapter 51 ), the Court holds two regular sessions annually with the first session commencing on the second Tuesday in January and the second session commencing on the first Wednesday in September.

** Order 2006-7-2 ( July 3, 2006 ): selecting Colgan Air, Inc., d / b / a US Airways Express, to provide essential air service at Beckley, West Virginia, for a new two-year period beginning August 1, 2006, at a subsidy of $ 1, 930, 759 annually.

** Order 2003-1-14 ( January 17, 2003 ): selecting Colgan Air, Inc., d / b / a US Airways Express, to provide essential air service at Staunton, Virginia at a subsidy rates of $ 623, 667 for the first year, with an extension for a second year subject to the mutual agreement of the carrier and the Department, and ( b ) establishing a subsidy rate of $ 514, 211 annually for the hold-in service being operated ay Staunton by Air Midwest, Inc., d / b / a US Airways Express, from April 23, 2002, until Colgan begins service.

The Charleston Distance Run is a 15 mile road running event held annually in Charleston, West Virginia.