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A Little Link Love - Focusing on Virginia

by SP on July 27th, 2007

Just thought that I would see what there is to do in Virginia. Here’s just a sampling.

 

*Virginia is For Lovers

 

*Avoco Museum

 

*Blue Ridge Parkway

 

*Busch Gardens

 

*Children’s Museum of Richmond

 

Virginia Trivia… Did you know…
The first peanuts grown in the United States were grown in Virginia.
The Blue Ridge Mountains are located in Virginia.
The American Revolution ended with the surrender of Cornwallis in Yorktown.
On March 9, 1862 at Hampton Roads, Virginia, the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (formerly the USS Merrimac) met in one of the most famous naval engagements in US history. Their battle, the first of its kind between metal armored vessels, changed for all time the nature of naval warfare.
10th of the 13 original colonies, Virginia was admitted to the union June 25, 1788.
The state motto is “Sic Semper Tyrannis”. (Thus always to tyrants)
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