Enjoy hands-on archeology and earth science activities, arts and crafts, shoreline cleanup, tree planting, scenic views of ...

PETERSBURG, Va. (WRIC) — Petersburg National Battlefield will commemorate the 159th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Stedman ...

What happens when species protection trumps historical interpretation at Petersburg National Battlefield? Every December for the last five years, a couple of amorous bald eagles have arrived in ...

practicing in and around the trenches preserved on the fields of the Petersburg National Battlefield Park. In World War II, General George S. Patton established the Desert Training Center in part ...

First up: Petersburg National Battlefield, site of the longest siege of the Civil War and home to the “Crater,” a vast hole where some 352 Confederates were blown up and scores of Black Union troops ...

now managed by the National Park Service as a part of the Petersburg National Battlefield. Just southeast of the old port area along the James (now a park), the edges of Hopewell’s industrial district ...

As Earth Day nears, so does another opportunity to celebrate the place that we call home, and learn about ways we can keep it ...

The National Park Service has recently opened the nearby Monocacy Battlefield Park ... Grant: the 1864 Campaign" from Fredericksburg to Petersburg, and "Lee's Retreat," between Petersburg ...

When teacher Erin Gilbert and her colleagues at White Oaks Elementary School in Fairfax County, Va., set a syllabus and ...

Their application to American Battlefield ... the park's award-winning National Museum of the Civil War Soldier. They walked ...

Join Petersburg National Battlefield on Saturday, April 20, the beginning of National Park Week, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for a variety of activities and volunteer projects. Earth Day is Monday ...