Virginia History & Culture - Fall/Winter 2025

Fall/Winter 2025

In This Issue

The Revolution

Heats Up: Fall & Winter 1775 page 4

Collection Spotlight: Virginia’s Constitutional Ratification Document page 10

Reclaiming the Story of Abraham Skipwith page 18

Stella Dikos: Building Community page 14 HampdenSydney College at 250 page 22

Cover: Union Theological Seminary, Venable Hall, c. 1830s (Courtesy of Hampden-Sydney College).

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THE VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & CULTURE

VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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Carlos M. Brown*

Vice Chair

J. Tracy Walker IV*

Immediate Past Chair

Richard Cullen*

Honorary Vice Chairs

Austin Brockenbrough III

Harry F. Byrd III*

Nancy H. Gottwald

Conrad M. Hall*

Thomas G. Slater, Jr.*

Regional Vice Chairs

William H. Fralin, Jr.

Susan S. Goode*

Gen. John P. Jumper*

Lisa R. Moore

Gerald F. Smith*

B. Marc Allen

Neil Amin

Charles L. Cabell

Victor O. Cardwell

Herbert A. Claiborne III

William C. Davis

Melanie Trent De Schutter

Molly G. Hardie

Victoria D. Harker

Russell B. Harper

Rudene M. Haynes

Paul C. Harris

C. N. Jenkins, Jr.

Edward A. Mullen

Gen. Richard B. Myers

John R. Nelson, Jr.*

William S. Peebles IV

*Executive Committee Annual Report & Honor Roll page 28

J. Sargeant Reynolds, Jr.

Xavier R. Richardson

Pamela Kiecker Royall*

Elizabeth A. Seegar

Robert D. Taylor

Alexander Y. Thomas

Founded in 1831 as the Virginia Historical Society, the VMHC, a private, non-profit organization, is the oldest museum and cultural organization in Virginia, and one of the oldest and most distinguished history organizations in the United States. The museum cares for a renowned collection of more than nine million items representing the far-reaching story of Virginia.

FROM THE PRESIDENT

We are building toward America’s semiquincentennial—quite literally, in this case!

As part of VMHC’s far-reaching portfolio of commemorative investments for America’s upcoming milestone moment—one of the most robust such efforts in the nation— we are seizing the opportunity to renew our beloved Robins Family Forum and Carole & Marcus Weinstein Learning Center. These two marquee spaces are the only areas of our 250,000-square-foot complex that weren’t refurbished as part of our 2020–2022 major overhaul. Now is our chance!

With our usual alacrity and nimbleness, we have just completed the renovation of the Robins Family Forum—transforming our nearly 500-seat auditorium into a beautiful convening space with expanded functionality to be an active hub for civic engagement and museum programs alike. Just in time for America’s anniversary, and the Forum’s own 20th anniversary, this thoughtfully renovated space will feature an enlarged stage, new lighting and technology, improved accessibility, and stunning new finishes that match the rest of the museum. Thanks to the Robins family, this wonderful venue has hosted some of VMHC’s most important activities for two decades. Now, with their continued, extraordinary support, the Forum is ready to continue its essential service to Virginians for decades more.

Next, we turn our attention to the renewal of the Carole & Marcus Weinstein Learning Center, which will become a stunning new educational hub—home for our popular history education initiatives and for our timely and dramatically expanding statewide civics education work. When complete in spring 2026, this wing of the museum will feature two wellappointed, multipurpose classrooms, a student gathering place, workspace for VMHC’s talented educators, and much more. As with the Forum renovation, the Learning Center will gain lighting, technology, and accessibility enhancements, and its finishes and aesthetics will reflect the new VMHC.

This is an exciting year on many fronts. Your state history museum is implementing ambitious plans for commemorating America’s 250th, and we are working to ensure that the legacy of this moment continues well past July 4, 2026. We are, as ever, moving with purpose and vigor to do more and be better every day for current and future Virginians. Thank you for all your wonderful support and your enthusiasm for our continued progress.

With gratitude,

Jamie O. Bosket, President & CEO

THE REVOLUTION HEATS UP: FALL

& WINTER 1775

Watercolor on paper drawing of "View of Part of the Ruins of Norfolk" by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, ca. 1796–1798

(Courtesy of the Maryland Center for History and Culture).

As night fell on January 1, 1776, torch-bearing men filled the streets of Norfolk. But these were not New Years revelers. Nor were they British soldiers, bent on punishing rebellious colonists. Instead, Patriot soldiers, many of them drunk, broke into homes, stores, and warehouses, looting the contents before setting the buildings on fire. When the smoke cleared two days later, two-thirds of Virginia’s largest city, almost 1,000 structures, lay in smoldering ruins. If Virginians had any doubts about the destruction and sacrifices that might accompany a revolution, they were extinguished by the burning of Norfolk.

After blooming in the spring and taking root that summer, Virginia’s revolutionary movement tested its strength in the fall and winter of 1775 with the first armed clashes between Patriot and British forces. Though the size of armies and number of casualties were not nearly as high as the battles taking place in the northern colonies, they had an outsized influence on the trajectory of the broader American Revolution. These events caused more and more colonists to see formal separation from the British Empire as the only way forward and when Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence the following summer, two of the twenty-seven “injuries and usurpations” he charged against the king referenced events that took place in Virginia in the fall and winter of 1775.

READYING FOR A FIGHT

Created that summer by the Third Virginia Convention, by October 1775, Virginia’s revolutionary army converged on Williamsburg. The core of this army were the nearly 1,000 professional soldiers of the First and Second Virginia Regiments. These men enlisted for at least one year of service and were paid, equipped, and trained by Virginia’s civilian revolutionary government. Bolstering the regular army was a larger body of 8,000 minutemen. Training more often than the militia, but not permanently under arms, the minutemen were designed as a semi-professional reserve force. The convention elected Patrick Henry as colonel of the First Regiment, making him de facto commander of all Virginia forces. But as with most things involving Henry, his selection was controversial. Many moderate delegates distrusted the bombastic and iconoclastic Hanover County lawyer, plus, he had no military experience. Even George Washington later wrote, “my countrymen made a capital mistake, when they took Henry out of the senate to place him in the field.” But the animosity that moderate elites felt toward Henry was exactly what made him popular with Virginia’s middle and lower classes. Recognizing the need to appease the wider population who would be necessary to fill the ranks of their new army, the convention relented. However, they balanced Henry by selecting William Woodford as the colonel of the Second Regiment. Woodford, a close friend and neighbor of Committee of Safety president Edmund Pendleton, had experience serving with Washington during the

French and Indian War and ensured the moderate faction had an experienced representative on the chain of command. Meanwhile, after fleeing the Governor’s Palace back in June, Royal Governor Lord Dunmore gathered his own forces in Norfolk. From there, he aimed to interdict supplies destined for the Patriot movement and awaited reinforcements he would use to retake Williamsburg by force.

SHOTS FIRED

Emboldened by a lack of organized resistance in the Norfolk region, Dunmore launched a series of raids into the surrounding countryside, seizing or destroying more than 70 cannons, countless muskets, and hundreds of pounds of gunpowder. Even more concerning in the eyes of Patriot leadership, Dunmore gave refuge to dozens, if not hundreds, of enslaved people who had escaped from across the colony and made their way to his ships. And although he had not yet enacted any formal policy, he repeatedly refused enslavers' demands to return escapees. Virginia’s Patriot executive body, the Committee of Safety, quickly realized these actions threatened the fundamental fabric of

Virginia’s slave society and they could not allow Dunmore to operate unchecked any longer. Even the Continental Congress in Philadelphia discussed Virginia’s need to “secure themselves from the practices of Lord Dunmore” as he remained one of the last royal governors across the colonies posing a threat to the cause. At the end of October, the committee ordered Colonel Woodford to take his Second Regiment and several companies of the Culpeper Minute Battalion to Norfolk and “attact [sic], kill, or captivate all such as you shall discover to be in arms.”

But before Woodford could march to Norfolk, Dunmore struck first. At the end of October, Captain Matthew Squire of HMS Otter attacked the village of Hampton at the tip of the Virginia Peninsula. A few weeks prior during a September storm, Squire ran aground in a small tender, ironically named Liberty, outside Hampton. Local Patriot militia seized the vessel, its stores, and several of its crew. Although they eventually released the crew, the militia refused to return the ship’s supplies unless Squire turned over an escaped enslaved man working as a pilot on the Otter. Neither side budged and Squire lost patience, intent on forcing Hampton’s residents to return British property or else face the destruction of their town. Over the course

Map of part of the Tidewater Province of Virginia, 1791 (Courtesy of Library of Congress).

of October 26 and 27, Squire attempted to land a force of men in downtown Hampton, but accurate Patriot gunfire repeatedly drove the British tenders away. Though the battle was strategically inconsequential, several British soldiers were killed and wounded. Blood had finally been spilt in Virginia.

DUNMORE’S PROCLAMATION

Soon after the skirmish at Hampton, Woodford began moving his roughly 600-man detachment across the James River and headed toward Norfolk. As he approached the area, he was joined by more local militia, bringing his command close to 1,000 men. Dunmore, with roughly 150 soldiers from the 14th Regiment, a few dozen marines from his warships, and a handful of Black and white Loyalist volunteers, recognized he needed to do something drastic to boost his ranks in the absence of reinforcements. So on November 7, 1775, Dunmore penned his soon to be well-known proclamation that enacted three key policies: he declared martial law in Virginia; he raised the “King’s Standard,” meaning all ablebodied white men were expected to join his forces or else be considered traitors; and he offered freedom to all “indentured Servants, Negroes, or others (appertaining to Rebels) . . . that are able and willing to bear Arms.” But like Abraham Lincoln in a future war, Dunmore realized these radical measures would have far greater effect if issued from a position of strength, so he waited for a victory to make his proclamation public.

He did not have to wait long. On November 14, Dunmore learned about a gathering of several hundred militia at Kemp’s Landing, a small settlement in Princess Anne County. Though outnumbered, Dunmore’s professionals quickly routed the inexperienced Patriot soldiers—killing, wounding, and capturing more than a dozen of them. Dunmore seized on this victory and issued his proclamation.

Loyalist leaning Virginians reacted positively to Dunmore’s call to arms. Several hundred men volunteered for the newly formed white Loyalist unit, the Queen’s Own Loyal Regiment, and thousands more in the Norfolk region took an oath of allegiance to defend the crown's authority. Black Virginians rejoiced now that Dunmore formalized his policy of accepting enslaved people into his army. Within a matter of weeks, he had

several hundred African American men organized into what he called his Ethiopian Regiment, some of whom reportedly wore uniforms with the motto “Liberty to Slaves” emblazoned across their chests. Seven months after his famous speech, enslaved people were conspicuously using Patrick Henry’s lofty rhetoric to symbolize their own struggle for liberty.

Murray, Fourth Earl of Dunmore, 1929 (VMHC Collection).

Predictably, news of Dunmore’s Proclamation incensed and terrified Patriot leadership. The Committee of Safety quickly published their own proclamation in the Virginia Gazette, directly addressing enslaved people and threatening them with death if they sided with Dunmore. Many Virginians who remained on the fence about joining the Patriot movement now agreed with their more radical neighbors that the governor’s actions threatened the stability of the colony’s slave society. Virginia’s Patriot leadership took direct action in response, calling a Fourth Virginia Convention to meet in Williamsburg at the beginning of December. This meeting authorized the raising of six more regiments of regulars and passed a series of ordinances “for establishing a MODE of PUNISHMENT for the ENEMIES to AMERICA in this colony.” News of Dunmore’s actions quickly spread across the colonies. Even Washington, commanding

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the Continental Army outside of Boston, feared “If . . . that Man [Dunmore] is not crushed before Spring, he will become the most formidable Enemy America has.” Although he temporarily reinforced his army, Dunmore inadvertently stoked Virginia’s revolutionary movement from an ember to a full blaze.

FIRES IN THE FROST: GREAT BRIDGE & NORFOLK

While the reverberations of Dunmore’s Proclamation spread across the colonies, Colonel Woodford continued his approach toward Norfolk. In anticipation, Dunmore ordered the fortification of the strategic crossing at Great Bridge, which controlled the southern approaches to the city. By the beginning of December, the two forces faced off across the swampy Elizabeth River. Fearing Woodford would soon be reinforced by soldiers from North Carolina’s Patriot army, on December 9, Dunmore ordered an attack. Leading the charge was Captain Charles Fordyce and 120 British regulars of the 14th Regiment, who had to march roughly 200 yards over a narrow causeway to reach the Patriot entrenchments. Holding their fire until the British were within 50 yards, the Patriots blasted the British front ranks. Captain Fordyce rallied his men and urged them forward until he was mortally wounded by more than a dozen gunshots just fifteen feet from the fortifications. After the death of their commander, the British charge collapsed. From beginning to end, the battle lasted less than 30 minutes, and when the smoke cleared, 17 British soldiers lay dead and more than 40 were wounded. Miraculously, only one Patriot soldier was injured. Afterward, an observer was shocked when he “saw the horrors of war in perfection, worse than can be imagin’d; 10 and 12 bullets thro’ many; limbs broke in 2 or 3 places; brains turning out. Good God, what a sight!”

– Patriot Soldier “ “

...fire was so great the Clouds above the Town appeared as red and bright as they do in an evening at sun setting.

On several occasions, the Patriots attacked British shore parties attempting to obtain fresh supplies. In retaliation, on New Year’s Day 1776, Dunmore ordered his ships to bombard Norfolk's waterfront and sent men ashore to burn warehouses the Patriots used as shelter. By that evening, the fires along the city's wharf district had mostly burned themselves out, but the flames soon returned. One Patriot soldier across the water in Hampton reported the “fire was so great the Clouds above the Town appeared as red and bright as they do in an evening at sun setting.” Furious that the region had provided so much support

With the loss of so many of his professional soldiers, Dunmore realized he could no longer defend Norfolk and ordered his men to board his small fleet of warships. Norfolk’s many Loyalist civilians quickly followed Dunmore’s example, and a flotilla of several hundred vessels of all shapes and sizes soon floated in Norfolk’s harbor. Woodford occupied the city shortly thereafter, but tensions with Dunmore remained high.

A view of the Battle of Great Bridge, 1775 (Courtesy of University of Michigan Library).

to Dunmore over the previous six months, Patriot soldiers took their revenge and rampaged through the city with the tacit approval of their commander, who had earlier described the city’s residents as a “contemptible set of wretches.” Instead of disavowing these actions, the convention in Williamsburg gave Woodford the authority to destroy the remaining homes of Norfolk that “may be useful to our enemies.”

Before leaving the area in early February, Patriot forces followed through on these orders, burning the remaining 400-plus structures left standing. More than 90 percent of Virginia's largest city was completely razed to the ground.

A 1777 investigation by the House of Delegates confirmed the claims of all those who witnessed the atrocity. Dunmore's bombardment accounted for the destruction of just 54 of 1,300 destroyed structures. Woodford's men destroyed the rest. But these embarrassing findings were not made public until more than 60 years later. Instead, Patriot leadership suppressed the report, blamed Dunmore, and spread the news of his alleged depravities far and wide. Advocates for independence celebrated. They correctly believed the severity of purported British crimes would push more people to support that most radical of propositions.

AFTERMATH

Although Dunmore would remain in Virginia for another eight months, by the close of 1775, his chances of reasserting control in the colony had evaporated. The events of October through January left a lasting mark on the course of the Revolution. A version of Dunmore’s Proclamation later became official British army policy, meaning for many of the hundreds of thousands of enslaved people in America, freedom wore a red coat.

When the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, their accusation that the king’s representatives “burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people” and “excited domestic insurrections amongst us” directly referred to the burning of Norfolk and Dunmore's Proclamation, respectively. The violence of the fall and winter of 1775 proved to Jefferson and others that the opportunity for compromise was over.

GIVE ME LIBERTY

Virginia & The Forging of A Nation Special Exhibition

On Display Until January 4, 2026

Virginians—through their ideas, influence, and efforts—helped forge a new American nation.

Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Give Me Liberty highlights Virginia’s leading role in the American Revolution. It explores the continental and global forces as well as the actions of both iconic and ordinary people that brought about a model of democratic government that changed the world.

Give Me Liberty was produced in partnership by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture and Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. It is presented by Virginia’s American Revolution 250 Commission.

COLLECTION SPOTLIGHT: VIRGINIA’S CONSTITUTIONAL RATIFICATION DOCUMENT

Edmund Pendleton’s copy of the Virginia Constitutional Ratification Document, 1788 (VMHC; Helen Marie Taylor Collection).

In June 1788, 168 delegates gathered in Richmond for more than three weeks to debate ratification of the Constitution of the United States. Far from inevitable, the outcome hinged on fierce arguments both for and against ratification, led by prominent figures of Virginia’s revolutionary generation, including Patrick Henry, James Madison, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee, James Monroe, and Edmund Randolph. Edmund Pendleton, a seasoned statesman, presided over the proceedings, working to moderate the intensity of the debate and guide the convention through its charged deliberations.

At the Constitutional Convention the year before, Virginia had played a central role. George Washington presided, and Madison’s “Virginia Plan” formed the foundation of the final document. After months of debate, the Constitution was signed and circulated to the states for ratification. By the time Virginia’s ratifying convention convened, eight states had already approved the Constitution, meaning only one more was needed to put it into effect. In Richmond, the delegates quickly divided into two camps. The Antifederalists, led by Patrick Henry, opposed the Constitution as written and called for substantial revisions to protect state and individual rights. The Federalists, led by Madison, urged ratification as essential to preserving the union and strengthening national government. Henry dominated the proceedings with his characteristic oratory, while Madison responded with measured arguments and quiet lobbying to win over undecided delegates. When Henry introduced a sweeping list of 40 conditional amendments, Madison and his allies proposed a more practical alternative: ratify the Constitution and separately recommend amendments and a Declaration of Rights for future consideration by Congress.

On June 25, after impassioned exchanges and shifting alliances, the convention voted narrowly to ratify the Constitution by a margin of 89 to 79. Two days later, the delegates also resolved to recommend that Congress consider adopting a Declaration of Rights along with a series of amendments to the Constitution, many of which were later echoed in the Bill of Rights, which took effect after Virginia ratified them in December 1791.

Although the official ratification document was sent to Congress, Pendleton retained a copy that has recently been conserved by the Virginia Museum of History & Culture as part of the

Honorable Helen Marie Taylor Collection held by the Museum. Across this rare national treasure’s fourteen pages, the tally of votes are recorded and the forty proposed amendments are outlined in elegant cursive script. Extensive conservation work, taking many months, stabilized the manuscript, which had become brittle and fractured in many places over time. Pendleton’s copy of the final resolution belies the intensity of the preceding debates. In spare legal language, it reads: “We the said delegates, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, do by these presents assent to and ratify the Constitution . . . hereby announcing to all those whom it may concern, that the said Constitution is binding upon the said people.”

As the Commonwealth and the nation prepare to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this document offers valuable insight into how revolutionary fervor gave way to the difficult and often contentious work of building a new republic.

Edmund Pendleton, William Mercer, early 19th c. (VMHC Collection).

UPCOMING EVENTS

CONRAD M. HALL SCHOLAR SERIES

Free for members!

Poplar Forest: The Lost Private World of Thomas Jefferson by Travis McDonald

Oct. 30 12:00 pm

Declarations of Independence: Indigenous Resilience, Colonial Rivalries, and the Cost of Revolution by Christopher Pearl

Nov. 6 12:00 pm

After the Fire: Richmond in Defeat by Nelson D. Lankford

Nov. 20 6:00 pm

The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution by Zara Anishanslin

Dec. 4 12:00 pm

Unlikely Collaborators: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and the Promise of America by Dr. Jonathan White

Dec. 18 12:00 pm

MARSHALL SCHOLAR LECTURE

The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton Vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America by Jeffrey Rosen, President & CEO, National Constitution Center

Jan. 21 5:30 pm

To register and view all of our upcoming events, visit VirginiaHistory.org/Calendar

FAMILY PROGRAMS

First Fridays at VMHC

The museum remains open late for this free, family-friendly event.

First Fridays made possible with support from Virginia R. Edmunds. First Friday each month 5:00 pm–8:00 pm

18th Century Chocolate Making Demonstrations

This free, family-friendly program will feature outdoor games and toys from yesteryear.

Every Saturday in Dec. 11:00 am–2:00 pm

MEMBER ONLY

Curator Conversation: Collections Acquisition Roundtable, 2025 Edition (VIRTUAL)

Join members of the VMHC curatorial team as they share some of their favorite objects and stories that were added to the museum’s remarkable collections in 2025.

Dec. 1 10:00 am

Member Appreciation Day

Members enjoy 20% discounts (regularly 10%) ALL DAY in VMHC's Commonwealth Café and Museum Store. Plus, register for exclusive member-only gallery tours. Dec. 2 10:00 am

SPECIAL EVENTS

Virginia House Holiday Open House

Spend time exploring the historic Virginia House and gardens decorated for the holidays. Dec. 14 12:00 pm–4:00 pm

Used Book Sale

Donate books until Dec. 28

Shop Dec. 30–Jan. 11 All proceeds support VMHC Educational programs.

Living History Weekend

50+ reenactors will fill the museum and grounds with the sights, sounds, and stories of the Revolutionary era. Nov. 15 & 16

Maker Market

Shop unique, handcrafted gifts from artists and artisans inspired by the Revolutionary era! Enjoy live craft demos, food trucks, music, family fun, and FREE museum admission on Friday evening and all-day shopping on Saturday!

Dec. 5 & 6

Movie Mythbusting LIVE! –

National Treasure

Join the VMHC for an in-person screening of the action-adventure blockbuster National Treasure (2004), with live commentary from VMHC staff on what’s true, what’s not, and unique connections to the VMHC collection.

Dec. 19 6:00 pm

History Notes

This special evening of music and history pairs a brief history talk featuring rare items from the museum's collection with inspired musical selections played by a Richmond Symphony chamber ensemble.

Mar. 12 6:00 pm

Citizenship Ceremony

Gather at the VMHC for President's Day to watch America’s newest citizens take their oath, enjoy live music, explore the galleries, and see rare artifacts on display for one day only. Feb. 16 11:00 am

REVOLUTION REVISITED: WORDS TO ACTION

Season Two of Revolution Revisited follows the story of the Revolution as the colony moves from protests to open war, from royal authority to self-government, and from loyalty to independence.

Hear how Washington takes command of the Continental Army, how Dunmore’s Proclamation shakes the foundations of both slavery and loyalty, and how ordinary Virginians confront extraordinary choices. Witness the birth of Virginia’s new government, its Declaration of Rights, and the momentous adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

Stream Season 2 and subscribe for new episodes at VirginiaHistory.org or wherever you get your podcasts.

Made possible by William & Karen Fralin.

STELLA DIKOS:

BUILDING COMMUNITY ONE MEAL AT A TIME

Stella at The Village with her popular Greek salad

(Courtesy the Dikos family).

Greek immigrant Stella Dikos forged a place for herself, created community, raised a family, and built a legacy in Richmond. Described as having an inner light, Stella built trust and relationships in a quiet way—working hard without complaint, connecting in close conversations, and helping people in need. Her difficult childhood and journey to Virginia were a part of her identity. So, too, were her loving family and friends and her drive to not just succeed, but to shine.

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I worked hard and got the respect of the community, and for that I’m grateful.

– Stella Dikos

GREEK ROOTS

Stella Dikos (née Kafantaris) was born during the Second World War in Trikala, Greece. In Stella’s youth, occupation by the Italian and German armies and wartime scarcity must have affected her life. However, it was the death of her mother when Stella was three years old that impacted every aspect of who she was. Her father, Mikhail, a tailor and beekeeper, was distant as he grieved. It was Stella’s grandmother, aunts, and women in the community who guided Stella as she grew up. She learned to cook in their kitchens, which became a place for Stella to find solace and build relationships.

Mikhail made sure both Stella and her brother Nick received a good education, and he paid for them to attend English language classes. Still, in Greece, a nation recovering from war, there were few choices for an 18-year-old woman. Stella’s aunt suggested marriage to a Greek American who was looking for a Greek woman to share his life. Stavros Dikos moved to the United States more than a decade before and opened The Village Restaurant in Richmond, Virginia, in 1956. Stella and Stavros spent some time together. He was 18 years older, but she saw warmth in his eyes.

Stavros, called Steve by some of the customers, was often found behind the bar and deli case in The Village (Courtesy the Dikos family).

of The Village Restaurant, 1972–1973 (Courtesy the

DECISIONS, RISKS, AND SETBACKS

Imagine what it took to make that decision—leaving home and family (maybe forever), marrying a man she barely knew, and building a life in America with all the potential sacrifices and opportunities. “Do you think you would like America?” Stavros asked. Stella thought she would. They married on March 4, 1962, and two months later Stella was on an airplane to New York. The next day she was helping in The Village Restaurant, located on Harrison Street. Bill Beville, a young aspiring writer, was a regular and remembers Stella’s first day at “The Village.” To him, Stella was quiet, beautiful, and considerate.

Stella put her education to work helping Stavros with the business side of the restaurant. When she decided to come to the United States, Stella thought she might attend college in Virginia, but between work and the birth of their son Demetrios (Jim) in December of 1962, there was little opportunity for college. But she had the restaurant.

The Village, located in Richmond’s Fan District, became the place where Stella created community. It was a gathering place for characters—artists, authors, activists, and dreamers who discussed art, politics, and bantered with Stavros and Stella. Stavros named it The Village Restaurant because it reminded him of his home village where everyone knew each other.

Over time Stella became the person others came to for a sympathetic ear. Another regular at The Village, Sue Swartout, says Stella demonstrated care and generosity. Bill Beville noticed how Stella would quietly place one of Stavros’s famous sub sandwiches in front of someone unable to buy a meal. Rita Lawrence started working there in 1973. “It kind of felt like home, where [Stavros] and Stella were the parents of these misfits,” she said.

Stella became the lifeblood of the business. When back pain forced Stavros to work fewer hours, Stella opened the doors, worked all day, and balanced the books until late at night. Then in 1981, the Dikos family came to a crossroads. The building owner would not sell or create a long-term lease so they could not make any improvements to the restaurant. It was risky, but Stella convinced Stavros that they could start again. On the last day of The Village, longtime customers sent flowers and cards. “They felt it was a funeral; that something was dying,” said Stella later to journalist Eileen Mellon.

I learned so much, especially with the communication with the people. They love me and I love them back.

– Stella Dikos

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INSPIRATION AND LEGACY

The community Stella built over almost 20 years at The Village and their love of her Greek food inspired her to imagine something new. She and Stavros opened “Stella’s” on Harrison Street in April 1983. “It was a necessity to open Stella’s. I needed to succeed,” Stella later said. People flocked there for the simple but delicious food and famous bread inspired by Stella’s childhood. Twelve years later, bad business investments forced Stavros and Stella to close Stella’s. Meanwhile, their daughter Katrina and her husband Johnny Giavos started their own restaurant in 1991, and Stella helped by cooking and caring for her young grandchildren.

Three years passed before inspiration struck again. Walking with her grandson, Stella saw the building at the corner of Main and Rowland streets for sale—it was time for a new dream. Stella’s Café opened in 1998 with coffee,

Exterior

Dikos family).

Stella in her restaurant on Lafayette St., 2000s (Courtesy the Dikos family).

sandwiches, and pastries. The community again followed Stella but clamored for the food she served before. Within a month, the new business was just “Stella’s” and the menu expanded. Stavros’s ill health forced another closure in 2007. Stella cared for Stavros for almost two years and worked at restaurants owned by her bother Nick and daughter Katrina.

Finally, the third Stella’s opened in 2011 at its present location on Lafayette Street. Excitement was tempered however by the death of Stavros only two weeks before opening day. This venture was a partnership with Katrina and Johnny, and in 2015 they opened Stella’s Grocery across the street. Today, Stella’s legacy includes two restaurant locations in Richmond, one in Charleston, South Carolina, and seven markets.

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

Stella Dikos worked in her kitchen preparing specialties for the restaurants and markets that carry her name up to the last few days of her life in June 2024. The community mourned along with her family and friends. Stella’s family searched for a place in the community that could possibly

The VMHC is proud of its special partnership with Stella's Grocery, which brings beloved dishes to the museum's Commonwealth Café. Featuring grab-and-go, dine-in, and retail options, the café offers a welcoming spot for museum guests and the community.

accommodate a memorial that no doubt hundreds would attend. Reaching back to Stella’s first years in Richmond, they approached the Virginia Museum of History & Culture to host the memorial. As a new immigrant, Stella would visit the museum to improve her English skills, reading the history of our Commonwealth, and valued the institution as part of the community—a community she helped create. Special thanks to Bill Beville, Eileen Mellon, and Sue Swartout for sharing their memories of Stella and The Village Restaurant.

BREAKING GROUND: RECLAIMING THE STORY OF ABRAHAM SKIPWITH

Skipwith-Roper Cottage — Mary Wingfield Scott, 1953 (Courtesy of The Valentine).

Abraham Peyton Skipwith was the first known Black homeowner in Richmond’s historic Jackson Ward neighborhood, and he was believed to be the first Black Richmonder to have a fully executed will. Today, a local history organization is working to preserve his unique legacy and reconstruct his home.

Skipwith, a mixed-race Black man, was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, in the late 18th century (as early as 1767). Through the American Revolution, he was enslaved by Jaquelin Ambler, who served as Treasurer of Virginia in Governor Thomas Jefferson’s cabinet, and Rebecca Lewis Burwell.

In 1782, Skipwith was sold by Ambler to Thomas Bentley. Then, just a few years later, in 1785, when Bentley died without completing plans to free Skipwith, Abraham was, per the terms of Bentley’s estate, enslaved by merchants Thomas Keene and James Warington.

Skipwith submitted a petition to Virginia’s General Assembly requesting his freedom as promised by Thomas Bentley. Referred to the state’s Court of Justice, the petition was denied. Skipwith’s petition was notable because it revealed his political connections, to include a witness statement by Benjamin Harrison V, who in addition to being a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was also the father of the 9th president and great-grandfather of the 23rd president of the United States.

Ultimately, Skipwith earned enough money to purchase his freedom from Keene and Warington in 1789.

Within four years, in 1793, Skipwith purchased parcels of land on the northern edge of the City of Richmond for 15 pounds and 5 shillings in what would become present-day Jackson Ward—building a gambrelroofed cottage now known as the Skipwith-Roper Cottage, one of the city’s oldest documented

dwellings. The cottage was a 1.5-story, wood-frame, weather-board-clad house with a raised basement and single-bay Greek revival porch featuring Doric columns.

Skipwith was clearly resourceful because he had accumulated significant property and other personal assets in his lifetime. Leading him, before he passed in 1797, to do something personally and historically significant—he created a will. In his bequest, he left the cottage to his wife, Cloe, and granddaughter, Maria, both of whom he manumitted around 1794, in addition to leaving several personal possessions, such as a gun, gold, silver, furniture, china, clothing, livestock, and a horse and buggy. Significantly, he also left funds for the manumission and education of his descendants. When his granddaughter Maria married Peter Roper, a free Black man, in 1805, she brought to the marriage property she inherited from Skipwith.

Skipwith’s descendants would emerge as entrepreneurs and elected leaders across Jackson Ward in the 1800s. Alpheus and Ebenezer Roper, sons of Peter and Maria, were founding members of the Union Burial Ground Society, which was established in 1848 to provide death benefits for its members.

Skipwith-Roper Cottage — Edith Shelton Collection, 1956 (Courtesy of The Valentine).

As another example, when the ward was created as a political district on April 17, 1871, Alpheus was elected as one of the first Black representatives on the Richmond Common Council. He also helped to organize a voter mobilization campaign that resulted in the election of 24 Black Delegates to the 1868–69 State Constitutional Convention, which passed legislation to recognize Black Virginians as full citizens (rights largely retracked by the 1902 state constitution).

In 1904, the Skipwith-Roper Cottage was sold by Skipwith’s last known descendant, Marietta Roper, to Abram Coleman. The cottage, like many properties in the Jackson Ward area, was condemned in 1954 by the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike Authority as part of the creation of Interstate 95. The cottage was then sold for $25 and relocated to Goochland for private use.

Taking inspiration from a recurring instruction to Cloe in Skipwith’s will, “to her and her heirs forever,” The JXN Project intends to restore Skipwith’s story in Richmond. “The SkipwithRoper Homecoming” includes the multi-phased reconstruction of the cottage in Jackson Ward, and, eventually, a new

research lab and library, as well as a coworking space and greenspace for community programming and placemaking.

The story of Abraham Skipwith is currently being featured in an exhibition titled House to Highway: Reclaiming a Community History at the Library of Virginia through February 2026, and a new film titled Declarations of Independence produced in partnership with VPM will air in Summer 2026. The JXN Project was a 2024 recipient of a grant from VMHC’s Commonwealth History Fund.

The JXN Project is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded by Dr. Sesha Joi Moon and Enjoli J. Moon.

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Digital rendering of the multi-phased reconstruction of the Skipwith-Roper cottage in Jackson Ward, 2025 (Courtesy of Baskervill).

PETITION FOR FREEDOM, 1785

To the Honorable the Speaker and Members of the House of Delegates:

The petition of Abraham, a Mulatto man slave, belonging to the Estate of Thomas Bentley deceased, humbly sheweth:

That during the life time of his late master, your petitioner by a series of the most faithful, assiduous and affectionate services, obtained the confidence and regard of his said master inasmuch that he was rather regarded as a Clerk and assistant than in the unfortunate character of a Slave, and during the life time of his said master was always entrusted with the care, account, and disposition of his Money, effects and other property; That in testimony of these services your petitioners said Master always expressed, and by the affectionate treatment of your petitioner manifested, a uniform intention to grant your petitioner his freedom, and in his last illness frequently declared the same intention, and, as your petitioner believers was only prevented from so doing, either by will or deed, by the sudden manner of his death; That your petitioner being advised as well by the administrator and principal Legatee of his said Master, as by many other Gentlemen who were also well acquainted with his said Masters intentions towards him, that the creditors of the Estate will receive no Injury by the grant of your petitioners freedom, and in full confidence that he can produce the most decided testimony of his said late Masters promises and intentions towards him, humbly prays that in conformity thereto, an act may pass for granting to your petitioner the blessing of freedom.

And he as in duty bound will ever pray. Abraham’s petition, for freedom. November 22d, 1785

Referred to Court of Justice.

Abraham Skipwith's Petition for Freedom, 1785 (Courtesy of Library of Virginia).

AN UNPROPITIOUS TIME TO START A COLLEGE: HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE AT 250

Cushing Hall at Hampden-Sydney College, Summer 2024

(Courtesy of Hampden-Sydney College).

Sketch of “Academy House,” Hampden-Sydney College's first academic building, constructed 1775–1776 (Courtesy of Hampden-Sydney College).

Discontent among American colonists had been simmering for years. One thousand British soldiers were stationed in Boston since 1768. In 1774, the port of Boston was closed providing the colonists a clear example of the economic disruption that could be imposed at will by the British government. In fall 1774, representatives of eleven of the thirteen colonies gathered in Philadelphia at the First Continental Congress and attempted to agree on a united response.

Hundreds of miles south of Boston and Philadelphia in a thinly populated and agrarian section of the largest and most prosperous of the American colonies, a group of determined Presbyterian clergy, along with both Presbyterian and Anglican laymen, were close to realizing a plan that first emerged in 1771.

On February 1, 1775, a session of Hanover Presbytery met at Slate Hill, the plantation owned by Nathaniel Venable near Prince Edward Court House, to review the results of a successful fundraising effort by local Presbyterian congregations to establish an academy east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Funds were allocated for the purchase of books and mathematical and scientific equipment. Members of the Presbytery visited potential sites near Prince Edward Courthouse (now Worsham) and decided on a tract of about 100 acres offered by Peter Johnston, a prominent local planter.

There they decided to build an academy building, rector’s house, a steward’s house, and such other necessary buildings as funds allowed. At the same meeting, four ministers and eight laymen were elected to serve as the board of trustees. The board elected Samuel Stanhope Smith as rector to head the new academy.

Samuel Stanhope Smith, a 23-year-old native Pennsylvanian and a 1769 graduate of The College of New Jersey (renamed Princeton University in 1896), had stepped forward to lead the new academy and traveled north to purchase books and

scientific equipment and to recruit faculty. In fall 1775, Smith advertised for students in Williamsburg’s Virginia Gazette with anticipation of beginning classes in November. He established a secular curriculum and the goal of the college “to form good men, and good citizens.”

Although established with strong ties to the Presbyterian Church, the founders guaranteed freedom of conscience and worship.

The selection of the names John Hampden and Algernon Sidney to christen the new college helps us understand the founders' inspiration. They chose to honor two men who challenged monarchical authority, as they themselves were in the process of doing. They were also challenging the authority of state religion. This new academy was the first to claim an American identity: non-sectarian, antimonarchical, and dedicated to the principles of self-government.

to the established educational order as represented by The College of William & Mary, royalist and Anglican, and the royal colonial government, and to publish that intention in the leading newspaper in the Virginia colony was in its own way a declaration of independence almost a year before July 4, 1776.

At the November 18, 1775, trustees meeting, Patrick Henry and James Madison were elected to the board. The contributions of Henry and Madison to the college’s early years were as different as the men themselves.

John Hampden (1595–1643) was a Puritan, landowner, and Parliamentary leader famous for his opposition to King Charles I over a form of royal taxation called ship money. This controversy contributed to the English Civil Wars. Hampden subsequently fought against the monarchy and died of injuries sustained at the Battle of Chalgrove Field in 1643.

Algernon Sidney (1613–1683) was a political theoretician. He was arrested as an accomplice in an attempt to assassinate King Charles II, and, after being tried and convicted, he was beheaded in 1683. At his trial, passages from the manuscript of his Discourses Concerning Government, where he argued for the citizens’ right of revolution, were introduced as evidence against him. Discourses Concerning Government was read and admired by American patriots including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin.

To found an institution named for two revolutionaries—one convicted of attempted regicide—so obviously in opposition

At the time of his election, Henry was famous as a political activist and orator. At the Virginia Convention in March of 1775, he delivered the phrase for which he is best known—“Give me liberty, or give me death!” In 1783, he helped to secure the state charter, which officially promoted the academy to a college. All schools in Virgina founded before the Revolution were designated as academies because William & Mary held the only charter. Institutions controlled by religious dissenters, such as Presbyterians, could not hold a charter from the colonial government. Curriculum at academies could be secondary or collegiate or a blend of the two given the young age of some students.

While at the College of New Jersey, James Madison was immersed in the liberalism of the Enlightenment and converted to 18th-century political radicalism. Madison and Samuel Stanhope Smith studied together under John Witherspoon, the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence, and remained friends thereafter. Their shared views were the principles upon which Hampden-Sydney was founded.

The mission of the College—to form good men and good citizens—is rooted in the idea of civic virtue and is unchanged since the founding because it is essential to the functioning of a republic. It means to be motivated by a desire to achieve the public or common good, the benefit or interests of all.

Portrait of Samuel Stanhope Smith by David Lewis (Courtesy of HampdenSydney College).

Civic virtue motivates the actions of the good man and good citizen and is the standard by which one’s actions are judged.

In the first year of the Revolution, the college’s students and faculty were actively involved in the war effort. In the spring of 1776, Governor Patrick Henry sent a requisition to Prince Edward County for militia. Sixty-five students over the draft age of 16 formed a company, part of the Prince Edward militia, which was drilling by July 25.

Here we come to one of Hampden-Sydney’s most enduring legends: the origin of the school colors of garnet and grey. It is said that the company’s uniform was a simple modification of ordinary grey hunting trousers and shirts, the shirts dyed purple with the juice of the pokeberry plant.

In September 1777, the student company spent 19 days on an expedition to Williamsburg. The company was thanked by Governor Henry and returned to college. In September 1778, the company marched to Petersburg. In neither case did the unit see military action, but it was not formally disbanded until peace was declared in 1783.

Documentary evidence is scanty, but available sources indicate that classes, as opposed to tutoring sessions, were held in January 1776, about the middle of the winter term. It is possible traditional classes were held before that date. The exact number of students that may have enrolled in November or were expected later in the winter term is yet unknown, but by the beginning of the summer term, 110 were enrolled.

Construction of the academy building continued to be problematic. The steward’s house and other campus buildings were made from wood, but the main building was to be more substantial; scholars agree that the structure, begun in the summer of 1775, was not expected to be completed until summer 1776. Standing three stories high, the 12-room building is believed to have been the largest structure of its kind west of Williamsburg. It was constructed of bricks made and timber cut on campus, and built by local craftsmen and laborers, free and enslaved. By 1840, almost all the 18th-century structures had deteriorated, and the academy building demolished.

In 1779, Samuel Stanhope Smith left to become president of The College of New Jersey, and the leadership fell on Samuel’s 23-year-old brother, John Blair Smith. The younger Smith was faced with maintaining and reviving an enterprise hampered by the war. In 1783, with the assistance of Patrick Henry, the General Assembly of Virginia was persuaded to grant a charter bestowing the power to grant degrees and to establish a self-perpetuating board.

To mark H-SC’s semiquincentennial, the VMHC, in partnership with the college, will display a series of special artifacts and archives Oct. 4, 2025–Jan. 4, 2026.

Hampden-Sydney College first advertisement, 1775 (Courtesy of Hampden-Sydney College).

By the time of the appointment of Jonathan Cushing as president in 1821, Hampden-Sydney was well established and had outgrown, both in terms of enrollment and academic needs, its original buildings. Major building efforts culminated early in the 1830s with the completion of New College, now Cushing Hall, on an elevated ridge just south of the original campus.

Hampden-Sydney is the parent of two colleges—Union Theological Seminary and the Medical College of Virginia.

Union Theological claims a founding date of 1812 as a “theological adjunct of Hampden-Sydney College.” In 1825, John Holt Rice, head of the seminary, moved his family and students into a new seminary building on land adjacent to the Hampden-Sydney campus. At the time, it was only the first section of what is now Venable Hall. The seminary, a partnership of the synods of Virginia and North Carolina, grew and prospered. In 1898, Union Theological Seminary moved to Richmond, and Richard M. Venable, an alumnus and Baltimore attorney, purchased the property and gave it to Hampden-Sydney. Union Theological Seminary is now known as Union Presbyterian Seminary.

The medical department of Hampden-Sydney was located in Richmond—it opened in 1838 at the southwest corner of 19th and Main in the former Union Hotel. The Egyptian Building on Broad Street was completed in 1845 to house the Hampden-Sydney Medical Department. The college operated the medical department until 1854 when it became the independent Medical College of Virginia, which was later absorbed into Virginia Commonwealth University.

William Henry Harrison (1773–1841) enrolled at Hampden-Sydney College in 1787 at age 14. Harrison would eventually serve as Governor of the Indiana Territory,

U. S. General in the War of 1812, in the U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio Senate, U.S. Senate. In 1840 he was elected 9th president of the United States.

Both Hampden-Sydney College and the newly independent colonies, founded by the same men, were experiments in the belief that men had the ability and the right to develop their own systems of government and to worship as their consciences dictated. With this freedom came responsibility: to cultivate qualities of virtue and civic responsibility.

At its founding, Hampden-Sydney shared both a time period and philosophy with the America Revolution that no other college can claim.

Hampden-Sydney College, after 250 years, remains a distinctive institution in American higher education, and one of the few remaining colleges exclusively for men.

Hampden-Sydney College students studying astronomy in the Pauley Science Center, 2024 (Courtesy of Hampden-Sydney College).

NEWS & NOTES

A WASHINGTON STATUE IN LONDON

Commissioned by Virginia’s General Assembly in 1784, Jean-Antoine Houdon’s statue of George Washington in the Virginia State Capitol has long been an iconic image of the General. So much so, that an exact replica stands today in London’s famed Trafalgar Square. Presented by the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia to mark the centennial anniversary of the treaty that ended the War of 1812, the statue stands as a reminder of the enduring “Special Relationship” between the two nations. In June 2025, more than a century after its original dedication and in time for America's 250th anniversary, the Washington Statue in London was rededicated following a careful restoration. A delegation, led by Virginia’s Governor and First Lady and including the VMHC, participated in the special event and related celebrations.

NEW VMHC PUBLICATION

RICHMOND INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT EXHIBITION

The traveling edition of Give Me Liberty: Virginia & The Forging of A Nation opened at Richmond International Airport in July, where it will enjoy a full-year run. Conspicuously situated in the main atrium connecting the two terminals, the display will greet more than 5 million travelers in the months ahead! Additional Give Me Liberty exhibit sets are now actively crisscrossing the Commonwealth on their way to more than 50 communities.

Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, a new companion book to VMHC's newest exhibition, explores the lives of free people of color in Virginia, revealing under-told and often inspirational stories of Virginia’s past. Un/Bound features contributions from scholars at Norfolk State University, Richard Bland College, Virginia State University, and The College of William & Mary. It is available along with other VMHC publications online and in the museum store.

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Denise B. Bethel

J. Edward Betts

Cabell Birdsong

Rob Blandford and Nancy Everett

Candace A. Blydenburgh and Carl B. Weiss

Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Boeve

Judy and Bill Boland

Alexander Brady Foundation

Victor and Michele Branch

Caroline Y. Brandt

Margaret and Al Broaddus

William G. Broaddus

Joan P. Brock and Brock Foundation

Mr.^ and Mrs. Donald S. Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Orran L.

Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Orran L. Brown Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas

C. Brown, Jr.

The Rev.^ and Mrs.

Wm. Hill Brown III

Dr. Charles F. Bryan, Jr.

Stephen D. Busch

Byrd Family Foundation

Gretchen C. Byrd

Mr. and Mrs. George E. Calvert, Jr.

Valerie D. and Miles Cary, Jr.

J. P. Causey, Jr.

Cavalier Land, Inc.

Catherine R. Claiborne

National Society of the Colonial Dames

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Cooke III

Josée G. and Dr. William Covington^

Kristin and Trevor Cox

James E. Crinkley, Jr.

Ronald A. and Betty

Neal Crutcher

Mr. and Mrs. John R. Curtis, Jr.

Matthew L. Cushman

Cary F. Dabney

Col. (Ret.) and Mrs.

Thomas Dalton

Betty Layne Des Portes

Robert V. Doggett, Jr.

Mary Ellen Donaghy

Jo Anne Draucker and Jim Thompson

Ammon G. Dunton, Jr.

Richmond, Va., Branch of the English-Speaking Union

Robert C. Farmer

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ferguson

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey B. Ferrill

Maureen D. Field

Nancy S. Finch and Laura Cassel

Patty and Stan Florer

Charles K. and May H. Fox

Mr. and Mrs. W. Heywood Fralin

John H. Frischkorn

William Childs Gay

Mr. and Mrs. L. Meriwether German

Thomas P. Gouldthorpe

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Green

David P. Grogan

Sandra G. Palkins and William K. Grogan

Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hall, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John Hanrahan

Jacqueline and Richard Harwood

County of Henrico, Virginia

Deborah D. Hinton

James A. Hixon

Rosemary Hodges

Marion and Guy Horsley

Helen Horwitz

Jane Hotchkiss

Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Dick Howard

The Hon. and Mrs.

William J. Howell

Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Hubbard

Mr. and Mrs. John Huber

Ocelia Hudson and Tim Cavazos

William Huneke

Constance Pechura and James C. Ingram and Constance Pechura and James Ingram Fund*

Irongate Capital Advisors

Tammy and Brian K. Jackson

Dr. and Mrs. Charles M. James

JMJ Corporation

Mr. and Mrs. W. Reed Johnson

Col. Kristen Raines and Maj. Gen. Stephen L. Jones

Susan S. Jones

Jordan Joseph and Jordan Solomon

Jean D. Jumet

Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Kaplan

Dana Dunbar King

Philip W. and Nathalie L. Klaus Fund*

Susan L. Klaus and Nathalie L. Klaus Charitable Lead Unitrust

Susanna B. Kondracki

Bonita Krochmal

Dr. and Mrs. James Lamberti and Lamberti Family Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Alan L. Landis

Elizabeth C. Stevenson and Dr. Nelson D. Lankford

Rebecca and Edward Lawson

Richard A. Lawson

Anna and Thomas Lawson

Mr. and Mrs. James F. Lipscomb, Jr.

Charlotte and Ronald Lively

Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Long, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Luke, Jr.

Lynn and Frederic Lyon

David and Patricia Lyons

Barbara C. Mace

Katherine N. and Steven A. Markel and Steve and Kathie Markel Family Fund*

The Hon. and Mrs.

Everett A. Martin, Jr.

John Martinez and Michelle Montague-Mfuni

Elizabeth Mason

Lynne McClendon

Patti Ryan and Pete

Wagner and Robert E. McConnell Foundation

Carol A. McCoy and Carol A. McCoy Fund*

The Hon. and Mrs.

Stephen McCullough

Mr. and Mrs. Charles

G. McDaniel

John Lee McElroy, Jr.

Elizabeth and Joseph McGowan

Mary Richie McGuire

Burgess Burn Bradshaw and Melville Foundation

Military Aviation Museum

Dr. Linda Karen Miller

The Hon. William C. Mims

William J. Molnar

John W. Moore, Jr.

Kathleen Markowitz, John and Diana Markowitz, and Thomas M. Moore

Charitable Endowment*

Dr. Thomas R. Morris

Mr. and Mrs. Marshall

N. Morton and Morton Family Fund*

Lindsey and Curry Motley

George Washington’s Mount Vernon

Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia Fund*

Mr. and Mrs. John F. Newsom III

Nikki Nicholau

Douglas A. Nunn

John R. Orrock

Emily J. Ott

Larry and Cindy Palmer

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth M. Perry

Patsy K. Pettus

Mr. and Mrs. Baxter F. Phillips, Jr. and Baxter F. and Sharon L. Phillips Charitable Account

Jacquelyn H. Pogue

Robert Dean Pope

Mr. and Mrs. R.

Gregory Porter III

Anita and Charles Poston

Anna and Joe L. Powers, Jr.

Debra Prillaman

Carolyn^ and Walter M. Pulliam, Jr.

Michael and Carolyn Quinn

Clyde and Carolyn Ratcliffe

Mr. and Mrs. James

C. Redford, Jr.

Mrs. Charles L. Reed, Jr.

Katherine G. Remick

J. Sargeant Reynolds, Jr.

Dr. James T. Rhodes

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas

A. Riopelle

Alice and Ed Rivas

Martha L. Robertson

Dr. and Mrs. Alan

Grant Robinson

Mr. and Mrs. N. Pendleton Rogers

Harold H. Ross

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas P. Rucker, Jr.

John A. Rupp

Michael J. Schewel

Cmdr. and Mrs. Stuart W. Settle, Jr.

Dr. Charol Shakeshaft and Dr. Dale Mann

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert L. Shelton and Gilbert and Judy Shelton Charitable Fund

Richard Slatten Endowment For Virginia History Donor Advised Fund*

Rita M. Smith

Victor Smith and Robin Brewster^

The Hon. John W. Snow and Snow Foundation

W. Ryan Snow

Space Saver Storage Solutions

Mr. and Mrs. Jack Spain, Jr.

Jane Bassett Spilman

Jane R. Stafford

Martha W. Steger

Conni and Sid Stern and Stern Foundation

Mary Elizabeth Stewart

Andrea Stillman

Phillip C. Stone

Rita Stone

Mr. and Mrs. Allan Strange

James C. Stribling

Marianne R. Svoboda

Leila C. Taaffe and Arthur Kellermann and Arthur Kellerman and Leila Taaffe Fund*

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Talbott IV

Harry T. Taliaferro III

Carol Tanner

Kathryn Gillespie Thurman

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Todd

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Tullidge, Jr. and Tullidge Family Fund*

Turnbull Family Fund

Jayne and Bobby Ukrop

Margaret and Massie Valentine

Mr. and Mrs. Ned Valentine

and Ned and Laura

Valentine Family Fund*

Mr. and Mrs. John L. Walker III

Mary S. Johnson and Marion Moncure Wall

Mr. and Mrs. Edmund

L. Walton, Jr.

Winfred O. Ward

John Warkentin

Mr. and Mrs. B. Brisco White, III and Good Shepherd Fund

Dr. David C. Whitehead, Jr.

Sarah and Terrell Williams

Isabella G. Witt

Joyce and Bill Wooldridge and William C. and Joyce N. Wooldridge Fund

Suzanne and J. Thomas Wren

Edward A. Wyatt V

Gary L. Young

$500 – $999

Allegra Marketing, Print, Mail

Mary S. and Jonathan Arnold

Ralph Ashton

Asian and Latino Solidarity Alliance

Addison D. Askew

Ann M. Askew

Elizabeth E. Askew

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ayers, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. David S. Bankos

Marie Ann Banks

Peter G. Barrett

Jeffrey G. Bassett and Kate Hershey and Jeffrey Bassett Family Charitable Fund

Marty and John Beall

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew

N. Benedetti

Kimberly Vullo and Paul Benson

Elizabeth A. Blevins and Betsy Blevins Fund*

Susan and Pete Boisseau

Cathy and Howard Bos and Bos Family Charitable Fund

Amy L. Breedlove

Dr. Beverly Louise Brown

Carolyn and Brian Burns

Robert L. Burrus, Jr.

Mrs. Randolph B. Cardozo

Francis F. Carr, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Carreras

Rejena G. Carreras

Donna Case

Ann and Kevin Casey

Stacye and Michael Clark

Dolores G. Clement

Susan C. Coogan

Mr. and Mrs. W. Stuart Darling

Mrs. Huntley G. Davenport,

Sr. and Mrs. Huntley G. Davenport, Sr. Fund*

Mr. and Mrs. Bradfute

W. Davenport, Jr.

Marie de Percin and Paul Daszkiewicz

Steven C. Deal

Dr. Georgean deBlois and Dr. Mark deBlois

Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence

John G. Dicks and Judy L. Worthington

Mr. and Mrs. Raynor

B. Duncombe

Brenda Gayle Epperson

G. Franklin Flippin

Flippo Foundation

Timothy Foerster

Dianne and James Forsythe

Christine and Clark Foulke

Dr. Rogers M. Fred III

Irene Frey

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Gayner

Amy Marschean and Paul Gilding

Margaret Blount and Jim Freeman

Yvonne and Charles Gold

A. G. Goodykoontz

Michael Christopher Gray

Thomas C. Gresham

Grier Family Foundation, Inc.

Johnny and Shannon Grymes

Sandra and Ted Guarriello

Margaret C. Hager

David W. Haines

Mr. and Mrs. David Hall

Terri Halperin and Alexander L. Wolman

Mr. and Mrs. G.

Bernard Hamilton

Anne C. Hamlett

Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Harrison

R. Neil Hening

Stephen A. Herman

Caroline Hunton High

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Hill and Norcross Fund

Mrs. William M. Hill

Sam and Mary Hixon

Mr.^ and Mrs. Dennis Holman

Margaret and Justin Howard

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas

Jefferson III

Suzanne and James Jernigan

Elizabeth S. Johnston and Elizabeth Johnston

Charitable Fund

Robert P. Kegley

Elliott Krash

Kathy and Mike Laing

Matt Larsen

Margaret Talley Lee

Frances J. Lee-Vandell

Benjamin Leigh

Dr. and Mrs. Steven Linas

Mr. and Mrs. S. William Livingston, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lukes

Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Mackall, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Macon III

Marine Corps Heritage Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. W. Barry Hofheimer and MarksHofheimer Foundation

Cheryl and Will Marling

Martha A. Martin

Mary K. McDonald

Bill Michie III

J. Cliff Miller III and Cliff Miller Family Endowment*

Phyllis A. Moore

Ellen Moseley

Katrina Murphy

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myers

Joyce and Ronald M. Nash

Jane W. Nelson

Jane D. Newell

Walker Noland

Darren J. Nolt

Trudy E. Norfleet

Ashley Power O’Connor

Irvin Owings III

Barbara Parker

Gay and Bob Pasley

Perkins Law

Davidson A. Perry-Miller

Mr. and Mrs. George G. Phillips, Jr.

Linda Pierce

Mr. and Mrs. James N. Plotkin and Gail and Jim Plotkin

Donor Advised Fund of Richmond Jewish Foundation

Mrs. Fred G. Pollard

The Hon. and Mrs. Oliver

A. Pollard, Jr. and The Hon. and Mrs. Oliver

A. Pollard, Jr. Fund*

Bruce A. Ragsdale

Vicki and John Ralls

C. Andrew Ramstetter

Mrs. Virgil P. Randolph III

Marika A. Rawles

Robin D. Ray

Florence M. Reese

Edward H. Rinaca

Maria Wornom Rippe

Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Roach

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherfoord

Jeffrey Sarmonis

Robert S. Schmidt and Melanie Bolling

James M. Schnell

Betty B. Schutte-Box

Mr. and Mrs. Greg Sekelsky

Michele and Evan Settle

Mr. and Mrs. Marc B. Sharp

Annette R. Sherman

Martha Shickle

Sarah M. Smith

Carolyn H. Spencer

Mary Anne and William Springer

Elizabeth Locke and John Staelin

Carl Steidtmann and Kathleen Cline

Janice M. Stewart and Warren Woolley

Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sutphin

Mr. and Mrs. Gary E. Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. W. McIlwaine

Thompson

Laura and Rick Thornton

John D. Trezise

Marshall Tucker

Valentine Museum

J. Gordon Valentine

Nancy O. and Dr. Thomas Van Auken^

Mr. and Mrs. Robert

J. Van Sickle

Secretary Travis Voyles and Jessica West

Mrs. J. Latané Ware

Andrea Wassmer

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Way

Jacqueline S. Westfall

Dr. and Mrs. H. George

White, Jr.

Richard J. and Nancy Plott

Williams Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald

A. Williams, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. Williams

J. Reid Williamson

Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. Workman

$250 – $499

1882 Project Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin

C. Ackerly

Amanda Aghdami

Lisa and Lang Ambrose

Frazier and Brad Armstrong

Mr. and Mrs. Charles

B. Arrington, Jr.

Marilyn and Ronald Artz

Rosemarie Ashton

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Askew

Susan and William Atkinson

Sally Bagley

J. Ballato

Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Ballato

Mr. and Mrs. Eric E. Ballou

Ida and Justin Barksdale

Baskervill

Diann Bates

John Batzel

Anne M. Beals

John D. Bean

Dr. and Mrs. Wyatt

Sanford Beazley III

Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Beck

Susan and Robert Becker

Trish Bernal

Mr. and Mrs. R. Crist Berry

Col. R. N. Bierly

Mr. and Mrs. Charles

E. Bingley, Jr.

Andrew Biondi

Lawrence and Vickie Blanchard

Rhona and Irving Blank

Jeanne and Deane Blythe

Catherine A. Boe

Canan K. and James N. Boomer

Morgan Borchardt

Jim and Judith Bowers

Ruth Ann and John H. Bowman

Mrs. Paul Boyan^

Faith Boyle and George Field

Kirsten and David Bradley

Mr. and Mrs. J. Read

Branch, Jr. and JR and JD Branch Family Fund

Susan and Richard Bream

David G. Brickley

Amber Brister and Jim Simons

Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Broadbent, Jr.

Patricia and William Brock

Jeffery C. Bromm

Jacquelyn Brooks

Ann C. Brown and Randy Webb

Curtis Brown

Judith Brush

George P. Burgwyn

Kevin J. Burke and Steven Browning

Ann and Phil Burks

Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Burnett

The Hon. and Mrs. Robert Bushnell

Heidi and Daniel Butler

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cabaniss, Jr.

Boyd Campbell and Margaret Kuhn

Brian M. Cann and Brian M. Cann Fund*

Camilla H. Moffatt and Capa Foundation

Susan and Richard Carchman

Jane H. Carlson

Dr. Carol Cash

Dr. and Mrs. Charles

C. Chadbourn III

Bryan Chambers and Christa Cosner

Jerome T. Cherry

Michael B. Chesson and Jane Sherwin

The Hon. and Mrs. Whittington W. Clement

Mr. and Mrs. Alan Colker

Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers

Catherine and Ernie Connon

Susan and Joe Corso

Mr. and Mrs. John H. Cronly III

Jody and James Crosland

Mr. and Mrs. Elmo G. Cross, Jr.

Lynda M. Crouse

Anne Gordon Curran

Maria Curran

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford

A. Cutchins IV and Cutchins Family Fund*

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Cuthbert, Jr.

G. Sanford Dallas

Elizabeth Daly

Gary L. Darden

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Darling

Sandra and Bruce Davis

Judge and Mrs. Mark S. Davis

Barbara and H. Talmage Day

Charlotte and Thomas deButts

Dora DeGeorge

Josephine Ann and Charles Devita

Jennifer and Christian

Di Spigna

Doris and Harry Dickinson

Mr. and Mrs. David Dickson

Wendy and James Dill

Linda and Brooke Doggett

Alan J. Dole

Donna T. Douglas

Anthony D. Draper and

Sarah A. Karluk

Joni and Mark Dray

Heather and Tim Dudley

Christina Dunn

Bobbi and Lewis Dunn

Linda and Chuck Duvall

E. A. Holsten, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Early

Catherine Eckbreth

Karen and Walter H. Emroch

Luther and Dira Ensminger

Janet Evans and Larry Pankey

William A. Fastabend

Joseph Papa and John-Stuart

Fauquet and John-Stuart

Fauquet and Joseph Papa Charitable Fund*

Leigh Ann and Howard Feller

Mary A. Felton

Annette Field

Mary Ross Reed Fisher

G. S. Fitz-Hugh, Jr.

Jennifer and Christopher Flinchum

Lt. Col. John B. Forsyth, USA, Ret.

Meg and Andrew Foster

Mr. and Mrs. David Frediani

Anne Hobson Freeman

Karena L. and Trenton

L. Funkhouser

Victor J. Galan

Mr. and Mrs. George

P. Gardner, Sr.

Mr. and Mrs. William

R. Gardner, Jr.

Patricia T. Garris

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gary

Barbara German

Leigh and Jerry Gilbert

Robert B. Giles

Elizabeth Glazebrook

Mr. and Mrs. Don Goldberg

Anne H. and McChesney

Goodall III

Susan Goodwin and Robert Ellis

Dr. and Mrs. John L.

Gordon, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. William

M. Gottwald

Susan A. and Michael Gracik, Jr.

Hatch D. S. Grandy

Lt. Col. Thomas Greco

Susan Green

William L. Gregg

Alexandra and Justin Griffin

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dun Grover

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. Hall

Linda Hall

Joanna Hamnett

Marie and Peter Hardin

Deborah and David Harless

Michael S. Harris

Margaret Harrison and Lee Parker

Jane and Jim Hartough

Linda S. Haskins and Bryan Haskins

Pat and Harry Haynsworth

Mildred Millhiser Heltzer

Dr. and Mrs. Walter P. Hempfling

Nancy W. Henderson

Rebecca Henderson

Darlene Slater and Charles A. Herod

Foundation for Historic Christ Church, Inc.

Greg Hite

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Hoggan

Jean and David Holman

Chris and Beth Houlihan

Jo Ann and Peter Howard

Jenny and Jay Howren

Sally and Mike Hunnicutt

Anne G. Huske

Christina and David Hylton

Catherine Ingrassia and Miles McCrimmon

Leslie and Gary Inman

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Innes

Dr. Rose M. Isgrigg

Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. James

Ina M. and Gene A. James

Meredith Jefferies

Jefferson Legacy Foundation

Harry M. Johnson III

Jacqueline and Robley Jones

Janet and Bruce Kay

Evelyn Kealey

Vivian Keasler

John B. Keefe

Shirley A. Kerns

Pam and Dallas Kersey

Matthew Bulleit Kirby

Tess and Daniel Koach

Elizabeth and Dale Kostelny

American Friends of Lafayette

Laura Lafayette and Kate Lafayette

Julie V. Langan

Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Large

Mrs. Dunbar Lawson, Jr.

Sally and Fontaine Lawson

J. Patterson Lawson

Marsha and Mark Leep

Mrs. Edward Legum and Edward and Ruth Legum Fund

Alan L. Lengel and Dr. Pam R. Lengel

Mr. and Mrs. Clark H. Lewis, Sr.

Megan R. and Christopher

D. Lloyd

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Loughridge

Dr. Donald F. Lynch, Jr.

Alastair S. Macdonald

Kathleen H. MacKay

George Marion

Dr. and Mrs. Norman J. Marks

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marshall IV

Mr. and Mrs. R. Strother Scott and Massie Scott Fund*

Mr. and Mrs. William C. McAllister

Kristin and Peter McChesney

Col. N. Turk McCleskey and Maryann Kaminsky

Richard L. McCluney, Jr. and Susan Roberts

Melissa and Thomas McCue Family

Dr. Anne H. McElroy and John L. McElroy III

Mr. and Mrs. Edward McManus

Lucy Meade

Brenda and C. Q. Meadows

Joanne Meeley

Dr. Mark H. Merson and Patricia T. Merson

Bonita and Michael Metz

Meredith Miles

Jane Sper and Pat Millen

Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Miller

Mr. and Mrs. John G. Milliken

Wallace B. and Elizabeth Millner

Jessica Mitchell

Kirsten Mohr

Mr. and Mrs. Glenn R. Moore and Stern Foundation

Betty and Jim Moore

Corell and Thurston Moore

Susan and Ken Moorman

G. Kenneth Morgan

Richard Murad

Vicki Taylor Murphy

Naval Order of the United States

Robert Neal

Dan A. Niccolucci

Dr. Ann Nichols-Casebolt and Dr. Neil Murphy

Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Norfleet, Sr.

W. Kemp Norman, Jr.

Lou and Herbert Norton

Jane and Bradley Nott

Helen and Chip Nunley

Joe Obenshain

John H. and Laura

Burns OBrion

Dr. William L. Old III

Calvin Omohundro

Claude and Mary Lamar Owen

Dr. and Mrs. Alan M. Padgett

Pamela G. Palmore

June M. Pankey

Elizabeth Jackson Parrish

Judith and Clinton Pease

Sharon and Edson Pederson

Anthony Pelling

Col. James G. Perlmutter

Ginny and Coleman Perrin

Mary S. Petersen

Rich and Chris Peterson

M. Kirk Pickerel

Annette and Bob Poff

Henry Pollard IV

Elizabeth Outka and Trip Pollard

Florence Annette Powell

Judge and Mrs. Samuel T. Powell III

Willie Powers and Lisa Martinez

John B. Purcell, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Purcell

Marianne and Matthew Radcliff

Marilyn Sue Rainey and Reuben M. Rainey

Jack and Cindy Reasor

Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Resnick

Pam Reynolds

Deborah L. Rice

George S. Rich and George

S. Rich Family Foundation

Diane E. and Rick Richardson, Jr.

David R. Ritter

Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Rizzo

Martha H. and William Rubin

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar A. Ruiz

Rebecca and Steven Rundle

Diana and James Russell and

Blair and Benjamin Whanger

Jean and Douglas Salter

Mr. and Mrs. Conrad

F. Sauer IV

Donald K. Schmidt

Barbara A. Schneider

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice

C. Schwarz

Karren E. Scott

Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Scott, Sr.

Victoria Seitz

Mr. and Mrs. William D. Selden

Julie Semp and Julie

Elgart and Bernie Albert

Semp Giving Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Steven

Setteducato

Janice D. Shaughnessy

Christopher N. Sheap, M.D.

Mr. and Mrs. John Shugars

Pat and Michael Shutterly

Suzanne and Alec Silitch

Cheryl and Bruce Skalbeck

Colleen and Moffett Skinner

Helen and Price Smith

Janet and Bob Sommerville

Constance and Ray Sorrell

Margaret A. Southwick

Dr. and Mrs. R. P. Sowers

Thomas C. Spavins

Margaret and Kenneth Spisak

Dr. William C. Spracher and Dr. Karen A. Spracher

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Sprenkle

Linda and Steven R. Spruill

Philippa Stairs

Joyce F. and Carl E. Stargardt

Sharon Steele

Mr. and Mrs. Philip E. Stephens

Lucinda Stine

Prof. Mary Stinson

Janet V. Stuhlreyer

Martha and David Swafford

Edward Testa and Kathleen Hubany

Sara Lee Thacker

Shelly and Troy Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Thornton, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilson

M. Torrence

Frances S. and John

Mills Turner III

Robyn and Gary Tyer

Stephanie Vale

Mr. and Mrs. John W.

Vaughan, Jr.

Dr. and Mrs. Robert W.

Vaughan and Robert and Mary Jo Sisson Vaughan DAF

Victor Vega

Linda Vitek

Therese M. Wagenknecht and Robert E. Wagenknecht

Elizabeth and Lester Wagner

Harriett Waldrop

Kristin P. Walinski and David Guarnieri

Kathi and Todd Walton

Mary and Douglas Waters

Kathy and John Watkins

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Watson

Virginia, Claire, and

Thomas Watson

Mr. and Mrs. Hill B. Wellford, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. James M. Wells III

Christopher P. and

Carolyn M. Werle

Carolyn and Matt West

Eleana and Stuart W. Whitehurst

Kathryn Whitlock and Katherine Nicol

Ashlin and Wayne Wilbanks

Gene C. Wilkinson

Edith Williams

Gary M. Williams

Lee Williams

Suzanne Hall and Joseph G. Willis

Dana and John Wilson

Sylvia Winterling and Jocelyne Winterling

Shelly and Frederick Woodruff

Susan S. and George

A. C. Woolley III

Mr. and Mrs. Madison Wootton

Wayne Wray and Alan Courtney

Mrs. Henry A. Yancey, Jr.

Dr. David W. Yates

Dr. and Mrs. Wilhelm

A. Zuelzer

Gifts-in-Kind

Robins Cellars

Matching Gift Companies

Altria Group

General Society of Colonial Wars

Walt Disney Foundation

Dominion Foundation

Matching Gift Program

Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc.

TowneBank Richmond

U.S. Bank Foundation

DONORS OF COLLECTIONS

The VMHC is also grateful for those who donated collection items in our most recent fiscal year 2025 (July 2024–June 2025).

Donors to Library & Manuscript Collections

Kenneth S. Anderson

Kayleigh Barbee

Sheridan R. Barringer

Viola Baskerville

Richard L. Beadles

Nancy Wright Beasley

Frederic C. Bell

Denise Bethel

Jack M. Boswell

Estate of Mary Lee Bowman

Kate Braithwaite

John M. Brandt

William Brethan

Austin Brockenbrough III

Bennie Brown

Beverly Louise Brown

Dale P. Brown, gift of

Helen C. Patrick

W. Hamilton Bryson

G. B. Burton

Edward A. ‘Ed’ Chappell

Karen A. Chase

William Cole

Cheryl A. Copper, gift of Jean Grace Pollard Kline

R. David Cox

Paul Anthony Curs

William C. Davis

Graham T. Dozier

Jeri Dudley

Angela Fielder

First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Va.

Robert N. Grant

Mary Ruffin Hanbury

Elizabeth Logan Harris

James Harvie

R. Neil Hening

James Herrera-Brookes

James S. Hollins, Jr.

Dorothy Hoobler

Thomas Hoobler

A. E. Dick Howard

Dana Dunbar Howe

Dr. James C. Kelly

Nancy Weigle Kraus

Leigh Lanocha

Maureen Elgersman Lee

Kathy Liston, gift of Mary

Janie McGehee and Robert P. Creecy

Kayle Mannino

Deborah Maximoff

Jennifer May

Travis McDonald

Robert N. McKenney

Susan Merling, gift of American Legion Women’s Post No. 118

Sharon E. Moore

Mulberry Family/ Mulberry Group Inc.

Suzanne Harman Munson

John O’Meara

Eileen Parris

James D. Paulk Jr.

Mary Tennant Bryan Perkins

Mark Person

Peyton Society of Virginia

Valerie A. Platz

R. D. Porter

James H. Price III

Joseph Saunders

Hal Schilbe

Paulette Schwarting

Karen A. Sherry

C. Ruth Simmons

R. J. Smyth

Judith Stein

Marc Sterling

Laura Stoner

Phillip Swan

Wendy Tackett

Jerry Tarver

Paul Michael Taylor

Elizabeth C. Teviotdale

Richard Torian

Len Tran

Gregory J. W. Urwin

Andrew Stoesser Veech

John Walch

Zachary Watson, gift of Lawrence M. Watson, Jr.

Kate Weis

Richard Wheeler

Chris Wilmott

Edward A. Wyatt

Donors to Museum

Collections

Mery Claire Butler and John Marshall Butler, Sr., MD

Janet Eddy

Descendants of Linn

Bliss Enslow

Female Descendants of Benjamin W. and Elizabeth C. Fitzgerald

Dr. Allen A. Frey

Ann Lindsay Pettit Getts

Grant and Josephine Griswold

Nancy R. Hofheimer

Mary Ellen Howe

Robert Desha Lucas III, Susan

Lucas Van Tiem, Shawn

Patrick Van Tiem, Addison

Desha Van Tiem, Robin Lucas

Hawks, Jo Desha Burgess, and John Carter Lucas

Greg McQuade, WTVR-TV

Ohio History Connection

Thomas Wayne Rogers

William M. Setzer, Jr.

Henry A. Silva

Ray Smith

Ellen Stonehill

Anne and Gene Worrell Foundation

Tribute Gifts

In honor of Catherine A. Boe

Melissa E. Butler and

Mark M. Person

In honor of Ken and Judy Dotson

Anonymous

In honor of Sam Florer

Institute for Learning in Retirement

In honor of A. E. Howard on his sixty years of teaching and the fiftieth anniversary of Commentaries on the Constitution of Virginia

Kristin and Trevor Cox

In honor of L. Paige

Newman

Garden Club of Virginia

In honor of G. Michael Pace, Jr.

Harry M. Johnson III

In honor of Dean Kathy

Rudasill, Ph.D.

Elizabeth Mason

In honor of the VMHC's Give Me Liberty exhibition and the 250th celebration

Patricia T. Garris

In memory of Jessica Aber

Michael Dry

In memory of H. Furlong Baldwin

Catherine A. Boe

Jamie and Emily Bosket

In memory of The Hon.

Gerald L. Baliles

William G. Broaddus

In memory of William Berry

Mr. and Mrs. Charles

Blackburn

In memory of my mother, Barbara Felton

Marsha Felton

In loving memory of Evamon Wells Fleming

Carrington P. Wells

Mr. and Mrs. James

M. Wells III

In memory of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Livingston Grier

Grier Family Foundation, Inc.

In memory of Brenton and Lindsay Halsey

Halsey Family Fund*

In memory of Purnell Hammack

Mr. and Mrs. Tom Maxwell

In memory of Erlene Hikida

Timothy Rodden

In memory of Mary

Ann Batson James

Daughters of Colonial Wars of North Carolina

In memory of F. Claiborne Johnston, Jr.

C. Andrew Ramstetter

In memory of David McGrann

Jody Aud

In memory of G. Gilmer Minor III

Sally Bagley

In memory of Elizabeth Brown Pryor

Dr. Beverly Louise Brown

In memory of Carolyn Pulliam

Catherine A. Boe

In memory of B.

Walton Turnbull

The Turnbull Family

In memory of J. Latané Ware

Mrs. J. Latané Ware

WEDDELL SOCIETY

We greatly appreciate the members of the Weddell Society for their foresight and generosity to include the VMHC in their estate plans.

John B. Adams, Jr.

Elizabeth and Tom Allen

Estate of Norvell Barry Baugeard

Juanita H.^ and Richard L. Beadles

Denise B. Bethel

Caroline Y. Brandt

Keane Hollomon Britton

Jane^ and Austin

Brockenbrough III

Dr. Donald S.^ and Mrs. Beejay Brown

Carolyn M.^ and Charles F. Bryan, Jr.

Jeanette Rowe Cadwallender and Nicholas John

Cadwallender

Dr. Gene R. Carter

Warren Fulton Chauncey

Mary Louise Chrisman^

Gary L. Darden

Norwood and Marguerite Davis

Melanie Trent De Schutter

I. B. Dent

W. Birch Douglass III

Jo Anne Wade Draucker

Virginia R. Edmunds

Eleanor S. Evans^ and Richard P. Evans^

Maureen and Ben Field^

Frances Jobson Francis^

Anne Hobson Freeman

Michelle Gluck and John McGurl

C. Hobson Goddin^

Eugene Ellis Golden

Mr. and Mrs.^ Conrad M. Hall

Mr. and Mrs. G.

Bernard Hamilton

M. Buie Harwood

R. Neil Hening

Albert P. Hinckley, Jr.

Nancy R. Hofheimer^ and William H. Hofheimer^

Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Hubbard

Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Jones

Leroy A. Keller, Jr.

Dr. James C. Kelly

Richard Labunski

Dr. Nelson D. Lankford

Mrs. James T. Lyon

Alastair S. Macdonald

Justice Elizabeth A. McClanahan

Jean Booth^ and Robert N. McKenney

Dr. Jan Meck

Dr. Eddie N. Moore, Jr.

William and Ann Oppenhimer

Nicholas A. Pappas

James H. Price III

Taylor and Helen Reveley

Dr. and Mrs.^ James T. Rhodes

Pamela K. Royall

Scottie and Tom Slater

The Snead Family Foundation

Hugh R. Stallard

Ruth Stotts^

Sallie and William B. Thalhimer, III

Stevenson T. Walker

Mr.^ and Mrs. John West III

G. Michael Wildasin

Mary and Fritz Will

Jane and Blair Wimbush

It is thanks to the generosity of our donors that the VMHC continues to collect, preserve, and interpret the Commonwealth’s history.

To support ongoing efforts: VirginiaHistory.org/Give

250TH INITIATIVE DONORS VIRGINIA HOUSE

Conrad Mercer Hall

Commonwealth of Virginia Melanie Trent De Schutter

Dominion Energy Lettie Pate Evans Foundation Lisa & Bill Moore

Mr. & Mrs. E. Claiborne Robins, Jr.

Red Gates Foundation Bob & Lynn Taylor

Carole M. & Marcus M. Weinstein Anne & Gene Worrell Foundation

Altria Group Atlantic Union Bank H. Furlong Baldwin Mr. & Mrs. David Beran

The Blocker Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Harry F. Byrd III The Cabell Foundation

E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation The Beirne Carter Foundation

Community Foundation for a greater Richmond Susan & David Goode

The June H. Guthrie Foundation Huntington Ingalls Industries

McGuireWoods Dr. Jan Meck Katherine & Jack Nelson

Anne Mullen Orrell Charitable Trust The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation

Richard S. Reynolds Foundation Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation

Virginia Harrison Spratley, Mary Spratley Doss, & Martha Spratley Pellington

The Helen Marie Taylor Charitable Foundation Virginia Law Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. J. Tracy Walker IV The Windsor Foundation Trust

Shannon & B. Marc Allen American Electric Power Foundation

Susan S. Bogese Brockenbrough Aggie & Richard Cullen

Virginia R. Edmunds Russell & Susan Harper R.E.B. Foundation

The Roller-Bottimore Foundation Pamela K. Royall

Blandford Rees Foundation Jamie & Emily Bosket

Dr. Tamara Charity-Brown & Carlos M. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Cabell

Joann & Victor O. Cardwell Mr. & Mrs. Herbert A. Claiborne III

Mr. & Mrs. William C. Davis George D. Dill Family Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Fralin, Jr. Robert & Lynne Glasser

Michelle Gluck, John McGurl, & The Hacker Family

The Hon. Aimee R. & William J. Guidera Victoria D. & Drew Alan Harker

The Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation

The Hon. C. N. Jenkins, Jr. & Dr. Pamela Royal Jenkins

General & Mrs. John P. Jumper Mars Foundation, Inc.

Jennifer & Edward Mullen Pamela & William O'Connor

Kevin & Theresa Osborne Peachtree House Foundation Xavier R. Richardson

Anne Carter & Walter R. Robins, Jr. Foundation William & Elizabeth Seegar

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Slater, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Smith, Jr.

Barbara Basl Stokey Virginia Humanities Wall Foundation

René Haeger Wenleder

The Allée Foundation Neil & Amishi Amin

The Constance Dundas Foundation Joanie Eiland & Randy Laird

Barbara & Horace Ford Jeanne & William Franklin Elliott & Terrell Harrigan

Crawley F. Joyner III Robert N. McKenney James V. Meath, Esq.

Penny & Billy Peebles Mary Ann W. & H. Brian Peppiatt

Patricia & Michael Rollston Tina & Lewis Stoneburner

Robert M. Turnbull Janet B. & Roger H. Tutton, MD

* As of June 2025

CENTENNIAL PERIOD DONORS

The Estate of Mary Louise Chrisman Russell & Susan Harper Bob & Lynn Taylor The Windsor Foundation Trust

Melanie Trent De Schutter The Roller-Bottimore Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Harry F. Byrd, III The Cabell Foundation

Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Cabell Aggie & Richard Cullen

General & Mrs. Richard B. Myers Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Smith, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. J. Tracy Walker IV

Mr. & Mrs. William C. Davis W. Birch Douglass III Susan & David Goode

Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Y. Thomas

Dr. Tamara Charity-Brown & Carlos M. Brown Mr. Albert P. Hinckley, Jr.

Jamie & Emily Bosket Mrs. Deborah D. Hinton James A. Hixon

Elizabeth & John Kenten Mary & Ted Linhart

John Lee McElroy, Jr. Penny & Billy Peebles

Elizabeth A. Blevins Robert & Lynne Glasser Bonita Krochmal

Robert S. Schmidt & Melanie Bolling Janice Stewart & Warren Woolley

Mr. and Mrs. Ned Valentine

Addison D. Askew Jeffrey G. Bassett & Kate Hershey

Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Bingley, Jr. Patricia & William Brock

Ann C. Brown & Randy Webb Susan & Richard Carchman

Donna Case Jerome T. Cherry Wendy & James Dill

Susan Goodwin & Robert Ellis Karen & Walter H. Emroch

Jenny & Jay Howren Julie V. Langan Alan L. Lengel & Dr. Pam R. Lengel

Mary K. McDonald Betty & Jim Moore Anthony Pelling

Davidson A. Perry-Miller Xavier R. Richardson David R. Ritter

Martha L. Robertson Dr. Ilse Snoeks & Dr. Jan Gheuens

Prof. Mary Stinson Fielding L. Williams, Jr.

* As of June 2025

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