Virginia Facts and Trivia



Virginia was named for England's
"Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I.

Jamestown was the first English
settlement in the U.S.
It was also the first capital of Virginia.

Virginia is known as "the birthplace of a nation".

Eight United States Presidents were born in Virginia:
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,
James Monroe, William Harrison, John Tyler,
Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.

Six Presidents' wives were born in Virginia:
Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson,
Rachel Jackson, Letitia Tyler,
Ellen Arthur, Edith Wilson.

Seven Presidents are buried in Virginia:
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Tyler, Taft and Kennedy.

The present state capital in Richmond was also
the capital of the Confederacy.

The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg
is the second oldest in the United States,
it was founded in 1693.

The State nickname is "Old Dominion".

The State flower is not really a flower,
but the blossom of the dogwood tree,
which is also the state tree.

The first peanuts grown in the United States
were grown in Virginia.

The Blue Ridge Mountains are located in Virginia.

The American Revolution ended with the surrender
of Cornwallis in Yorktown.

On March 9, 1862 at Hampton Roads, Virginia,
the USS Monitor and the
CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimac)
met in one of the most famous naval engagements
in US history. Their battle, the first of its kind between
metal armored vessels, changed for all time the
nature of naval warfare.

10th of the 13 original colonies, Virginia
was admitted to the union June 25, 1788.

Union Passenger Railway was the first successful
electric street railway transit agency.
It was formed in 1888 at Richmond.

The states of Kentucky & West Virginia
were formed from sections of the state of Virginia.

Virginia has had 3 capital cities:
Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Richmond.

Richmond was also the capital of the Confederate
States during the Civil War

Over 1/2 the battles fought in the civil war were
fought in Virginia. Over 2,200 of the 4,000 battles.

Virginia is the home base for the United States
Navy's Atlantic Fleet.

The tomb of the Unknown Soldier is in Arlington
National Cemetery.

Dulles International Airport is one of the busiest
airports in the world.

General Thomas Jackson got his nickname
"Stonewall" in Manassass.
The site of 2 major Civil War Battles.

The first Thanksgiving in North America
was held in Virginia in 1619.

Yorktown is the site of the final victory
of the American Revolution.

The Great Dismal Swamp is in Virginia
near the North Carolina border.

Virginia Beach is the largest city in Virginia.

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel
is the world's largest bridge-tunnel complex.

Wild Ponies have roamed freely on
Assateague Island for centuries.

President Thomas Jefferson designed his own
home and called it Monticello.

George Washington's home, Mount Vernon,
is located in Virginia.

Robert E. Lee, Commanding General of the
Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered his
men to Ulysses Grant, General-in-Chief of all United
States forces, on April 9, 1865 at the Appomattox
Court House

Bristol is legally two cities but they share the
same main street.
One in Virginia and one in Tennessee
each with its own government and city services.



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