Virginia State Info From America's Home Place

The commonwealth of Virginia is known as the “Old Dominion” or “Mother of Presidents” because it is the birthplace of eight presidents. Virginia is surrounded by Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia as well as Washington and District of Columbia. The state of Virginia was one of the thirteen colonies in the American Revolution and joined the confederacy in the American civil war. The state government, home to the oldest legislature in the Americas has been repeatedly ranked most effective by the Pew Center on the States.

Facts about the state of Virginia:

• Virginia was named for England's "Virgin Queen," Elizabeth I.
• The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco and many of the people who live there earn their living from the tobacco industry.
• Jamestown, the first of the original 13 Colonies was founded for the purpose of silk cultivation. Silk to be traded with the Court of King James. After blight fungus destroyed the mulberry trees (silkworm food), sericulturist planted tobacco as a cash crop.
• Jamestown was the first English settlement in the U.S. It was also the first capital of Virginia.
• Virginia is known as "the birthplace of a nation".
• Arlington County was originally part of the ten-mile square parcel of land surveyed in 1791 to be part of Washington, DC. The U.S. Congress returned that portion of the land to the "Commonwealth of Virginia" following a referendum among its citizens.
• Eight United States Presidents were born in Virginia: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.
• Six Presidents' wives were born in Virginia: Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, Rachel Jackson, Letitia Tyler, Ellen Arthur, Edith Wilson.
• Seven Presidents are buried in Virginia: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Tyler, Taft and Kennedy.
• The present state capital in Richmond was also the capital of the Confederacy.

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