Northern Neck National Heritage Area
Virginia’s Northern Neck Peninsula is the “birthplace of our nation” with three of the first five American presidents being born here, along with other prominent families that helped form our nation and its Declaration of Independence. It is a land where generations of Watermen still continue to harvest Rockfish, Blue Crabs and the ever famous Virginia Oyster and, family farms still flourish to this day.

A History Of Stepfamilies in Early America with Dr. Lisa Wilson of Connecticut College

The Kidnapping of Pocahontas, Politics, and Mythmaking in Patawomeck Country

Colonizing Women presented by Dr. Kathleen Brown

Material Culture and The Making of America with Dr. Jennifer Van Horn at Historic Christ Church

Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia

The Leedstown Resolutions: Connecting Consumerism and Revolution in the Northern Neck with Phil Levy

Indigenous Perspectives on the Northern Neck and Power of Place

Reimagining Leedstown What Archaeology Reveals about this Remarkable Place with Dr. Julie King

A Place Apart: Bound Labor in Virginia's Upper Northern Neck 1645-1702

Conflict, Migration, and Early Settlement of the Northern Neck with Dr. Barbara Heath

Virginia's Working Waterfronts Film

Virginia's Working Waterfronts Trailer

Conversation with White Stone Oyster Company & Byrd's Seafood

Beginning of 1812

1812 Sailor

Farnham Church

Virginia's Northern Neck

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