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As the confrontation between North and South
over slavery and related economic and political issues grew more divisive,
Virginia was caught in the middle. Though this slaveholding state
initially voted against secession from the Union, it joined the
Confederacy when the Civil War broke out, providing its capital, Richmond,
and its military leader, Robert E. Lee, who had previously turned down an
offer to lead the Union army. Four long years later, Virginia was ravaged,
its towns and cities wrecked, its farmlands ruined and most of its youth
dead. It has never regained its early prosperity, or its prominence in
national affairs.
Richmond itself was largely
destroyed in the war; today it's a small city, with some good museums, and
is the best starting point for seeing Virginia. The bulk of the colonial
sites are concentrated just to the east, in what is known as the Historic
Triangle. Here the remains of Jamestown, the original colony,
Williamsburg, the restored colonial capital, and
Yorktown, site of the final battle
of the Revolutionary War, lie within half an hour's drive of each other.
Another historic center, Thomas Jefferson's Charlottesville, sits at the
foot of the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains, an hour west of Richmond. An
attractive small college town in its own right, it's also within easy
reach of the natural splendors of
Shenandoah National
Park and the little towns of the western valleys. Northern Virginia,
often visited as a day-trip from Washington DC, features several posh
suburbs and a number of restored historic homes, the closest colonial
architecture to the capital in Alexandria, and Manassas, the scene of two
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Virginia Attractions |
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Arlington National Cemetery |
Lewis Ginter
Botanical Garden |
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Appomattox Historic Park |
Martha
Washington Inn |
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Ash Lawn Plantation |
Manassas Battlefield |
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Botanical Gardens, Norfolk |
Monticello - Home Of
Thomas Jefferson |
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Bristol Caverns |
Pamplin Park Civil
War Museum |
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Buckley Moss Museum |
Petersburg National
Battlefield |
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Busch Gardens Williamsburg |
Richmond International Raceway |
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Cape Henry Memorial Monument |
Richmond National Battlefield |
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Children's Museum of Virginia |
Robert E. Lee Boyhood
Home |
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Chrysler Art Museum |
Robert E. Lee Monument |
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Civil War Battlefields,
Virginia |
Science Museum Of Virginia |
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Colonial Williamsburg |
Shenandoah National
Park |
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Confederate White House Museum |
Shockoe Slip |
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Douglas Macarthur Memorial |
Statler Brothers
Museum |
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Dixie Caverns |
Stonewall
Jackson House |
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Edgar Allen Poe Museum |
Water Country USA |
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Edgar Cayce Foundation |
Virginia
Aquarium |
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Endless Caverns |
Virginia Zoological
Park |
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Fine Art Museum Of Virginia |
Woodrow Wilson Birthplace |
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Frontier Cultural Museum |
Virginia Air & Space Center |
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George C. Marshall Museum |
Virginia Sports Hall of
Fame |
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George Washington's
Ferry Farm |
Yorktown Battlefield |
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Jamestown
Settlement |
Yorktown Victory Center |
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Kings Dominion Amusement Park |
Zoological Park,
Norfolk |
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Langley
Speedway |
USS
Wisconsin National Museum |
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