York, Pennsylvania

:  A national first for York:  "The First National Thanksgiving."  So, now we have three states arguing over a holiday that is supposed to bring us together.  Massachusetts, Virginia, and Pennsylvania all claim ultimate bragging privileges when it comes to the first Thanksgiving.  [2006]

Weldon, North Carolina

Please browse through Historically Yours.  I haven't been keeping up with this blog, but I hope to return to it in 2014.  Meanwhile, please go to Geographically Yours or one of my other blog sites.  D.J.Z.  [2012]

Boydton, Virginia

Civil War Trails [2012]

Stratford, Virginia

Stratford Hall Plantation:  Rarely does a mill pond get a historical marker of its own.  Usually, the mill itself gets all the attention.  That's why it's refreshing to see a marker right beside the pond  that was crucial to the mill's operation.  It's also refreshing to see so much geography in the marker's text.  [2010]

Stratford, Virginia

Stratford Hall Plantation:  At Stratford Hall was born Robert E. Lee:  Don't you think his family plantation deserves a marker of its own?  Virginia's Northern Neck could easily market itself as the birthplace of American leadership.  Take that theme and go about re-designing the peninsula's historical marker collection.  [2010]

Mt. Vernon, Virginia

Too Much History:   All you can say is that it's the Virginia way.  When you cross the Virginia line, get ready to play Mussorgski's 'Pictures at an Exhibition.'  We don't have roadside markers, we have roadside galleries.  [2011]

New Kent, Virginia

Too Much History:   Don't even bother to read them.  The message is in their number.  What kind of a state has so much history it has to parade its markers along its verges in groups of five?  Virginia suffers from so much history, it doesn't know what to do with it all.  [1985]