RVA history

10 Years Later: A Best Friends Day Conversation

10 Years Later: A Best Friends Day Conversation

It's been 10 years since the last Best Friends Day Weekend in Richmond, Virginia and 20 years since its founders first came up with the idea of visiting a local water park to celebrate the end of summer. What they didn’t realize at the time was that this visit would...

Commemorating the End of Civil War, and Slavery

Commemorating the End of Civil War, and Slavery

It was the night they drove old Dixie down, and the American Civil War came to a close. It was the night they drove old Dixie down, and the American Civil War came to a close. After four years of bloody fighting, the war that had torn apart the United States and...