Thanks to Lawrence's connection to the powerful Fairfax family, at age 17 in 1749, Washington was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County, a well-paid position which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley, the first of his many land acquisitions in western Virginia.

In 1770, the future U. S. president George Washington, then a surveyor, began exploring large tracts of land west of his native Virginia.

1693 – 99 ), Virginia colonial surveyor

William Claiborne ( c. 1600 – c. 1677 ) ( also spelled William Clayborne ) was an English pioneer, surveyor, and an early settler in Virginia and Maryland.

However, Claiborne was offered a position as a land surveyor in the new colony of Virginia, and arrived at Jamestown in 1621.

A later traveller Colonel Joshua Fry was born in the town in 1699 before becoming a surveyor, adventurer, mapmaker, soldier, and member of the House of Burgesses, the legislature of the colony of Virginia.

Born in Connecticut, Godden's family moved many times before she graduated from high school in Virginia due to her father's job as a surveyor.

After completing his education, Krzyżanowski worked as a civil engineer and surveyor in Virginia and was instrumental in pushing America's railroads west.

Becoming a surveyor, he moved to Augusta County, Virginia, serving as deputy surveyor of the county in 1773.

He was surveyor for the Norfolk and South Air Line Railroad, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

In 1861 President Abraham Lincoln appointed North to be the official surveyor of the new Territory of Nevada, and North moved to Virginia City, Nevada.

Virginia Militia Major General and, effective May 1, 1861, Virginia Provisional Army Brigadier General Walter Gwynn, a former U. S. Army engineering officer and former railroad engineer and surveyor, sited and supervised the construction of batteries to defend Norfolk, Virginia in late April and early May 1861, including the battery at Sewell's Point.

A surveyor and cartographer, his Fry-Jefferson Map of 1751 accurately depicted the Allegheny Mountains for the first time and showed the route of " The Great Road from the Yadkin River through Virginia to Philadelphia distant 455 Miles " — what would later come to be known as the Great Wagon Road.

Andrew Lewis ( October 9, 1720 – September 26, 1781 ) was an American pioneer, surveyor, and soldier from Virginia.

Lewis spent the next fifteen years farming and working as a surveyor in southwestern Virginia.

Martin's descendants include his eldest son Col. William Martin, Tennessee pioneer, and member of the South Carolina and Georgia legislatures ; son Col. Joseph Martin, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, the Virginia State Senate and the Virginia Constitutional Convention 1829 – 1830 ; daughter Martha Martin, who married her cousin William Cleveland, son of Benjamin Cleveland, hero of the Battle of King's Mountain ; son Major Brice Martin, Tennessee pioneer, and surveyor in 1801 of the disputed boundary between Virginia and Tennessee ; Dr. Jesse Martin Shackelford, founder of Martinsville's Shackelford Hospital, later Martinsville Memorial ; Judge Nicholas H. Hairston of Roanoke.

John Savage was an 18th century surveyor of colonial Virginia.

They have an ancestry extending back, however, at least to 1728, when William Byrd described the Lubberlanders he encountered in the back country of Virginia and North Carolina.

* 1811 – A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable.

Poe is believed to have lived in the home at the age of 23 when he first lived with Maria Clemm and Virginia ( as well as his grandmother and possibly his brother William Henry Leonard Poe ).

* 1693 – The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia is granted a charter by King William III and Queen Mary II.

In 1992, Mason's new Prince William Institute began classes in a temporary site in Manassas, Virginia.

Category: Education in Prince William County, Virginia

The film stars George O ' Brien as the introverted Crown Prince Michael, William Powell as his happy-go-lucky brother and Virginia Valli as Michael's flapper love interest Dolores.

He had nearly finalized a deal to sell the team to businessman William Collins, who planned to move them to Northern Virginia.

* 1866 – William G. Conley, American politician and 18th Governor of West Virginia ( d. 1940 )

William T. Sutherlin Mansion, Danville, Virginia, temporary residence of Jefferson Davis and dubbed Last Capitol of the Confederacy

* William Stoddart: Outline of Buddhism, The Foundation for Traditional Studies, Oakton, Virginia, 1996.

William SmallThe nature of the group was to change significantly with the move to Birmingham in 1765 of the Scottish physician William Small, who had been Professor of Natural Philosophy at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

* William Mayo ( civil engineer ) ( c. 1685 – 1744 ), the civil engineer who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia

* 1772 – William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia ( b. 1711 )

Notable practitioners of elegiac poetry have included Propertius, Jorge Manrique, Jan Kochanowski, Chidiock Tichborne, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Thomas Gray, Charlotte Turner Smith, William Cullen Bryant, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Evgeny Baratynsky, Alfred Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Louis Gallet, Antonio Machado, Juan Ramón Jiménez, William Butler Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Virginia Woolf.

Category: Populated places in Prince William County, Virginia

A complete collection of Heinlein's published work, conformed and copy-edited by several Heinlein scholars including biographer William H. Patterson is being published by the Heinlein Trust as the " Virginia Edition ", after his wife.

His father, Sir William Lovelace, knt., was a member of the Virginia Company and an incorporator in the second Virginia Company in 1609.

West Virginia senator Robert Byrd,

* November 20 – Robert Byrd, U. S. senator from West Virginia and President pro tempore of the United States Senate ( d. 2010 )

* August 26 – William Byrd II, prominent planter from Virginia ( b. 1674 )

Humphrey ran for Majority Leader after the 1976 election but lost to Robert Byrd of West Virginia.

Robert Byrd ( D-List of United States Senators from West Virginia | West Virginia ) served as president pro tempore during Democratic Senate majorities from 1989 to 2010, and as president pro tempore emeritus from 2003 to 2007

The position has been held by Strom Thurmond ( R-South Carolina ) ( 2001-2003 ), Robert Byrd ( D-West Virginia ) ( 2003-2007 ), and Ted Stevens ( R-Alaska ) ( 2007-2009 ).

With the change in party control, Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia replaced Thurmond as president pro tempore, reclaiming a position he had previously held from 1989 to 1995 and briefly in January 2001.

Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, who was frequently accused, during his tenure in the Senate, of repeatedly inserting pork-barrel spending that favored his state into budget appropriations, called it " an offensive slap at Congress ," asserting that the legislation would enable the President to intimidate individual members of any Congress by targeting the projects of his political opponents.

In Virginia, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. organized the Massive Resistance movement that included the closing of schools rather than desegregating them.

Despite that, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia scolded Wilson for having certified the amendment without Congressional approval.

Titus and Vlurma Byrd, the infant's uncle and aunt, were given custody, adopted him, renamed him Robert Carlyle Byrd, and raised him in the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia.

In 1956, the Virginia General Assembly passed a series of laws ( the Stanley plan ) to implement Massive Resistance, a policy promoted by the Byrd Organization led by former Virginia governor and U. S. Senator Harry F. Byrd to avoid compliance with the Supreme Court decision in Brown.

They wanted a buffer from Virginia Indians for the English settlements, and Byrd hoped to develop land which he held in that area.

Byrd Presbyterian is a notable example of the simple brick churches constructed in Virginia during the 19th century.

Early in the 20th century, future Virginia politician Harry F. Byrd, Sr. and his wife established their first home near Berryville, where he undertook extensive agricultural activity growing peaches and apples.

Byrd became a State senator in the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly, served a term as a Governor of Virginia, and was a United States Senator for over 30 years, heading the powerful Byrd Organization which dominated state politics between the mid 1920s and 1960s.