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Virginia Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps, & Calendars
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Virginia, known as the “Mother of Presidents” and the “Mother of States”, joined the Union on June 25, 1788 as the 10th state. Virginia is one of four states that is called a commonwealth (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky). The name Virginia comes from Queen Elizabeth I who was called the ‘Virgin Queen’.
Virginia is in the South Atlantic Region - Maryland and the District of Columbia are to the north; the Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the US, to the east; North Carolina and Tennessee to the south; Kentucky to the west; and West Virgina to the west and north.
FYI ~ did you know that Virginia was the first state that ceded the vast territory it had previously claimed by right of colonial charter to the federal government of the United States? In 1783 the Virginians reached a compromise - their need for a stable confederated government trumped their desire for land. Other states then ceded their western claims and Jefferson proposed the Northwest Ordinance which created the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.
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“I have been planning what I would shew you: a flower here, a tree there ... on this side a hill, on that a river. Indeed, madam, I know nothing so charming as our own country.” Thus wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1788. And ever since, Virginians have faced a similar dilemma" where to begin to show off their state.
For the “Old Dominion” has much with which to treat the visitor. And it goes to unusual lengths to spotlight its smorgasbord. The state operates information offices as key locations where motorists cross the border on major highways. Staffed year round the offices stock some 400 brochures describing Virginia attractions. ...
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Virginia has been called “a thicket of history.” At Jamestown, the nation's story began, and reconstructed wattle-and-daub huts show you how those first settlers struggled throught the “starving time.” At restored Colonial Williamsburg and at Yorktown indelible moments in our past still ring. At Appomattox Court House another chapter came to an end. Little wonder highways bristle with historical markers to read.
The past still clings on Virginia's Eastern Shore, the 70-mile-long nib of the Delmarva Peninsula that the state shares with Maryland and Delaware. You can see buildings from the 1600s or hear on out-of-the-way Tangier Island English reminiscent of bygone centuries. Such provocative place-names as Mappsville, Modest Town, and Oyster dot the water-laced region.
An engineering triumph, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, connects the tip of the Eastern Shore to the Hampton Roads area. Here are playlands like Virginia Beach hard by a cluster of busy ports – Norfolk, Newport News, Hampton, Posrtsmouth; you can tour their sprawling U.S. Navy installations or take a harbor cruise where Monitor and Merrimack dueled. But the region also parades surprises; acres of daffodils near Gloucester; 225,000 azaleas in Norfolk's Gardens-by-the-Sea; countryside where that “precisous stink,” tobacco, built such showcase plantations as Carter's Grove, Bereley, and Shirley.
The stretch that is central and northern Virginia offers overwhelming fare. Civil War buffs can pick from the likes of Manassas and Chancellorsville. Visitors with a Bicentennial bent can – for starters – range from Michie Tavern where James Monroe sipped to Richmond's St. John's Episcopal Church, where Patrick Henry spoke of liberty or death. Vacationists of other interests can find other mix: smart shops, Arlington's impressive National Cemetery, the Pentagon, concerts at sylvan Wolf Trap park, Waterfored's craft fair.
Appalachian hills lay a rumpled carpet along Virginia's spine. Here are highland crafts and music, resorts and rolling farmland, limestone cavern and apple orchards, state parks with such intriguing names as Natural Tunnel and Hungry Mother, the great trough that is the Shenandoah Valley. And anecdotes that reveal a great deal about history-rich Virginia: A visitor to Lexington, noting the Robert E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church, commented with surprise because he thought Episcopal churches were named after saints.
“Oh, but is is,” came the reply.
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Brook Trout, the Virginia State Fish, are native to small streams, creeks, lakes, and spring ponds in eastern North America. Brook trout are a popular game fish needing clear waters of high purity and a narrow pH range as they are sensitive to poor oxygenation, pollution, and changes in pH caused by environmental effects such as acid rain.
Brook trout are in the same family as salmon, and though called trout, are really a char.
• more fresh water fish posters
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Cardinals, the State Bird of Virginia, are passerine birds (perching songbirds) native to both North and South America. Cardinals have red plummage and are seed eaters.
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Swallowtail Butterfly, the State Insect of Virginia, are large, colorful butterflies forming the family Papilionidae.
• more insects posters
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Dogwood, the Virginia State Flower & Tree are mostly diciduous wood shrubs and trees in the family Cornaceae.
• more trees posters
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A real Chincoteagie Pony named Misty was the inspiration of author Marguerite Henry's 1947 book Misty of Chincoteague.
• horses posters
• more biomes posters
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Foxhounds, the State Dog of Virginia, were breed by landed gentry for the sport of hunting foxes. The first foxhounds in the colonies were brought to Virginia by Robert Brooke in 1650.
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