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• Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial (Va.)
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• Augusta County (Va.)
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• Cumberland Gap (Ky. and Va.)
• Dinwiddie County (Va.)
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• Frederick County (Va.)
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• Hampton Roads (Va. : Region)
• James River (Va.)
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• James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)
• Jamestown (Va.)
• King George County (Va.)
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• Lynchburg (Va.)
• Manassas National Battlefield Park (Va.)
• Middlesex County (Va.)
• Monticello (Va.)
• Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate)
• New Market Region (Va.)
• Norfolk (Va.)
• Northern Neck (Va.)
• Pentagon (Va.)
• Petersburg (Va.)
• Portsmouth (Va.)
• Pulaski County (Va.)
• Richmond (Va.)
• Richmond National Battlefield Park (Va.)
• Roanoke River (Va. and N.C.)
• Rockingham County (Va.)
• Russell County (Va.)
• Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)
• Southampton County (Va.)
• Southside Virginia (Va.)
• Staunton (Va.)
• Stratford Hall (Va.)
• Stratton Major Parish (Va.)
• Tidewater (Va. : Region)
• Williamsburg (Va.)
• Yorktown (Va.)
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• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Homes and haunts -- Virginia
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• Powhatan Indians -- Virginia
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• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Virginia
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• Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Homes and haunts -- Virginia
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• Yellow fever -- Virginia
• Anderson, Thomas, 1785?-
• Banks, J. H., 1833-
• Branch, Cyrus, 1793 or 1794-
• Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-
• Burwell, Letitia M.
• Carey, Lott, 1780-1828
• Chesney, Pharaoh Jackson, 1781?-
• Dabney, Thomas Smith Gregory, 1798-1885
• Davis, Noah, 1803 or 1804-
• Fedric, Francis
• Ferrill, London
• Garlick, Charles A., 1827-
• Grimes, William, 1784-1865
• Hancock, Gordon Blaine, 1884-1970
• Harrison, Burton, Mrs., 1843-1920
• Henry, George, 1819-
• Jasper, John, 1812-1901
• Johnson, Thomas L. (Thomas Lewis), 1836-1921
• McKim, Randolph H. (Randolph Harrison), 1842-1920
• McPherson, Christopher, 1763?-
• Parker, Henry, 1835-
• Randolph, Peter, 1825?-1897
• Smith, James L. (James Lindsay)
• Smith, Stephen, 1769 or 1770-1797
• Steward, Austin, 1794-1860
• Stewart, John, 1786?-1823
• Turner, Nat, 1800?-1831
• Veney, Bethany
• Walker, William, 1819?-
• White, George, 1764-
• Williams, Isaac D., 1821?-
• Virginia. Declaration of Rights

• Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion (1999 electronic edition; originally pub. 1940), by Federal Writers' Project (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia)
• Virginia: A Geographical and Political Summary, Embracing a Description of the State (1876), by Virginia Board of Immigration (page images at MOA)

• Indians in Seventeenth Century Virginia (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #18; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Ben C. McCary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (2 volumes; 1850-1855), by William Henry Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (second series, second edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1856), by William Henry Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London, With Seven Related Documents, 1606-1621 (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #4; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, 1957), ed. by Samuel Merrifield Bemiss (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: The Faith of Our Fathers (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #10; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by G. MacLaren Brydon (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (2 volumes; 1850-1855), by William Henry Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical (second series, second edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1856), by William Henry Foote (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Travels in Virginia in Revolutionary Times (c1922), ed. by Alfred J. Morrison (HTML and page images at LOC)
• On Horseback, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Physical Survey of Virginia, by Matthew Fontaine Maury (page images at MOA)
• The Virginia Tourist, by Edward A. Pollard (page images at MOA)
• Rambles in the Path of the Steam-Horse, by Eli Bowen (page images at MOA)
• The Tidewater Cities of Hampton Roads, Virginia: Your Host for 1907, by Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Virginia After the War: An Account of Three Years' Experience in Reorganizing the Methodist Episcopal Church in Virginia at the Close of the Civil War (Indianapolis: Baker-Randolph Litho. and Eng. Co., 1891), by S. L. M. Conser (at memory.loc.gov)
• Documents Connected With the History of South Carolina (London, 1856), ed. by Plowden C. J. Weston (multiple formats at Google)
• Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Norfolk and Vicinity, Including Portsmouth and the Adjacent Counties, During a Period of Two Hundred Years (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1853), by William S. Forrest
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina (Boston: J. Norman, 1787), by Thomas Hutchins (PDF at ohiomemory.org)
• Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River and Kanawha Canal, by George William Bagby (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Proceedings of the Convention of Southern Governors, Held in the City of Richmond, Virginia, on April 12th and 13th, 1893: With Papers Prepared by the Governors of Arkansas, Alabama, South Carolina and Virginia, in Regard to the Physical Resources of Their Respective States (Richmond: C. N. Williams, 1893) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scenes in My Native Land (Boston: J. Munroe and company, 1845), by L. H. Sigourney (illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)

• Notes on the State of Virginia (multiple editions, annotated; 2014), by Thomas Jefferson, ed. by John O'Brien and Brad Pasanek (multimedia at jefferson-notes.org)

• Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based upon Original and Contemporaneous Records (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1896), by Philip Alexander Bruce
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Physical Survey of Virginia, by Matthew Fontaine Maury (page images at MOA)

• Encyclopedia Virginia (electronic edition) (illustrated HTML at encyclopediavirginia.org)

• A Virginia Scout (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1922), by Hugh Pendexter, illust. by D. C. Hutchison (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1904), by George Cary Eggleston (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Colonel Carter of Cartersville, by Francis Hopkinson Smith
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields, by Ellen Glasgow
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • Gutenberg text
• The Inhuman Stepmother: or, The History of Miss Harriot Montague (based on Aubin's Life of Charlotta Du Pont; 2 volumes; London: J. Roson, 1770), contrib. by Penelope Aubin (PDF with commentary at Chawton House Library)
• The Life and Death of Sam, in Virginia (Richmond: Pub. for the author by A. Morris, 1856), by Gardner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Life of Charlotta du Pont, an English Lady: Taken From Her Own Memoirs (London: A. Bettesworth, 1723), by Penelope Aubin (PDF at Chawton House Library)
• Shannondale (New York: D. Appleton, 1851), by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Two Gentlemen of Virginia: A Novel of the Old Regime in the Old Dominion (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1908), by George Cary Eggleston, illust. by Frank T. Merrill (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Valiants of Virginia (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1912), by Hallie Erminie Rives, illust. by J. André Castaigne
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Voice of the People, by Ellen Glasgow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Westover of Wanalah: A Story of Love and Life in Old Virginia (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., c1910), by George Cary Eggleston, illust. by E. Pollak Ottendorff (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Huguenot Lovers: A Tale of the Old Dominion (Richmond, VA: The author, 1889), by C. P. E. Burgwyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Judith: A Chronicle of Old Virginia (Philadelphia: Our Continent Pub. Co.; New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1883), by Marion Harland, illust. by William Ludwell Sheppard and A. B. Frost (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Last of the Foresters, or, Humors on the Border: A Story of the Old Virginia Frontier (1856), by John Esten Cooke (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage, by Ellen Glasgow (Gutenberg text)
• In Ole Virginia, or, Marse Chan and Other Stories, by Thomas Nelson Page (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
  • Gutenberg text and audio
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Moll Flanders (translated into French), by Daniel Defoe, trans. by Marcel Schwob (Gutenberg text)

• Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia, by Richard Edwards (page images at MOA)

• My Virginia Kin: Comprising the Hamlett, Witt, Giles, Wills, Eubank, Fortune, Mullenix, Lynchard, Talbot, and Kight Families; With a Short Treatise on the Loving Family (Strawberry Point, IA: Press-Journal Pub. Co., 1958), by Blanche Hamlett Baldridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia Historical Genealogies (Redwood City, CA: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1954), by John Bennett Boddie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Deacons of Virginia, and Some Collateral Lines (Staunton, Va: Deacon Family Association, 1963), by George West Diehl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers: Abstracts of Records in the Local and General Archives of Virginia Relating to the Families of Allen, Bacon, Ballard, Batcheldar, Bloute, Brassieur (Brashear), Cary, Crenshaw, Dabney, Exum, Ferris, Fontaine, Gray, Hardy, Isham (Henrico County), Jordan, Langston, Lyddall, Mann, Mosby, Palmer, Pasteur, Pleasants, Povall, Randolph, Satterwhite, Scott, Smith (the family for Francis Smith of Hanover County), Valentine, Waddy, Watts, Winston, Womack, Woodson (4 volumes; Richmond, VA: The Valentine Museum, 1927), by Edward Pleasants Valentine, ed. by Clayton Torrence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogy of the Mallorys of Virginia (Hartford: Connecticut Historical Society, 1955), by Henry R. Mallory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia; Also of the Families of Ball, Brown, Bryan, Conway, Daniel, Ewell, Holladay, Lewis, Littlepage, Moncure, Peyton, Robinson, Scott, Taylor, Wallace, and Others, of Virginia and Maryland (Wilkes-Barre, PA: E. B. Yordy, printer, 1891), by Horace Edwin Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reliques of the Rives (Ryves) (Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Co., 1929), by J. Rives Childs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descendants of Thomas Farmer, Who Came to Virginia in 1616: A Genealogy (c1956), by Ellery Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the Lander family of Virginia and Kentucky (Chicago: Regan Printing House, 1926), by David Lander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, From 1726 to 1871 (second edition; Staunton, VA: C. R. Caldwell, 1902), by Joseph Addison Waddell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Virginia Cousins: A Study of the Ancestry and Posterity of John Goode of Whitby, a Virginia Colonist of the Seventeenth Century; With Notes Upon Related Families, a Key to Southern Genealogy, and a History of the English Surname Gode, Goad, Goode or Good From 1148 to 1887 (Richmond, VA: J. W. Randolph and English, 1887), by G. Brown Goode (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alldredge-Aldridge-Bracken-Nesmith Families and Their Kin (Chapel Hill, NC: Privately printed, 1957), by Memory Aldridge Lester (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nicolas Martiau, the Adventurous Huguenot, the Military Engineer, and the Earliest American Ancestor of George Washington (Norristown, PA: The Norristown Press, 1932), by John Baer Stoudt (page images at HathiTrust)

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