Virginia Waterways & Underground Railroad Models an award-winning historian and director

an award-winning historian and director of the Virginia War Museum

Calamitous Loss

the powerful stories of heroism and technology that made the Monitor-Virginia duel a battle that revolutionized naval warfare

He lives on Old Point Comfort in Hampton

20th century Norfolk was marked by its development into a bustling Navy town

Virginia Waterways & Underground Railroad Models an award-winning historian and directorA part of the Underground Railroad, read here of enslaved people and their stories of using Virginia's waterways to achieve freedom. Enslaved Virginians sought freedom from the time they were first brought to the Jamestown colony in 1619. Acts of self emancipation were aided by Virginia's waterways, which became part of the network of the Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil War. Watermen willing to help escaped slaves made eighteenth