• the Virginian Railway Passenger Station in Roanoke was named to the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places after it was extensively damaged in a fire?
• the final streetcar to service Roanoke, Virginia went from Grandin Road Commercial Historic District to downtown on July 31, 1948?
• the Roanoke Apartments, which opened as Roanoke's largest apartment complex, are an example of Streamline Moderne architecture?
• the Fire Station No. 1 in Roanoke, Virginia was modeled after Philadelphia's Independence Hall?
• The Coffee Pot historic roadhouse (pictured) in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, features a 15-foot (4.6 m) stucco coffee pot atop its roof?
• Roanoke, Virginia, television station WROV-TV was the first UHF station in the United States to shut down?

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Richmond, Virginia

• Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond, Virginia contains a steam locomotive and ten flat cars trapped in a collapse in October 1925 which were never recovered?
• Dr. Hunter McGuire was a physician who amputated General Stonewall Jackson's arm during the American Civil War and later helped found several hospitals and a prominent medical school in Richmond, Virginia?
• Jackson Ward is a historically African-American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia where free African-Americans joined freed slaves and their descendants and created a thriving business community known as the "Black Wall Street of America?"
• Project Exile was a program of prosecuting illegal gun offenses in federal court, helping reduce gun violence in Richmond, Virginia?
• Virginia House in Richmond, Virginia, was once a priory in Warwickshire, England, and was used to entertain Queen Elizabeth I?
• a group of seven singing postal workers from Richmond, Virginia, called The Spiritual Harmonizers, made it past the first round of the fourth season of America's Got Talent?
• during the American Civil War, an early Union steam torpedo boat, USS Spuyten Duyvil, was used to clear obstructions so President Lincoln could visit the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia after General Lee's withdrawal?
• in 1893 Jefferson Davis lay in state at the Louisiana Historical Association's Memorial Hall in New Orleans prior to being re-interred in Richmond, Virginia?
• minister Edward Woolsey Bacon served in the American Civil War and in 1865 led the black 29th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry into Richmond, Virginia?
• the Star and Garter Hotel in Richmond was the venue for a dinner hosted by Charles Dickens in 1850 to celebrate the publication of his novel David Copperfield?

Norfolk, Virginia

• R&B singer Margie Day, who had a hit record with "Little Red Rooster" in 1951 and also recorded "Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy", established a children's art project in Norfolk, Virginia?
• Huntersville is unique amongst Norfolk's 19th-century neighborhoods, in that it was unplanned and developed over time?
• an American Revolution-era cannonball fired at Saint Paul's Church in Norfolk, Virginia was later reinserted into its wall?
• in 1855 the Howard Association of Norfolk, Virginia received contributions during the yellow fever epidemic from the U.S. Gulf Coast areas and that 150 years later, they sent $50,000 of leftover funds to Louisiana to help with Hurricane Katrina relief?
• the National Hockey League rejected a bid for an expansion team in Norfolk, Virginia, even after more than 5,000 season tickets were sold?

Alexandria, Virginia

• George Washington served as a justice in the court of Alexandria City Hall in Alexandria when it was a courthouse?
• Bayne-Fowle House, a National Register of Historic Places registered property located at 811 Prince Street in Alexandra, Virginia, United States, served as a military hospital in 1864?
• James D. Hutton was a pioneer photographer of the northern Rockies who betrayed the plans for the Federal defense of Alexandria, Virginia, to the Confederacy early in the American Civil War?
• Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized an African-American civil rights sit-in at the Alexandria, Virginia, public library as early as 1939?
• St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in the Old Town area of Alexandria, Virginia, was designed by Benjamin Latrobe, the second architect of the United States Capitol?

Fairfax County, Virginia

• George Washington's step-granddaughter Elizabeth Parke Custis married Thomas Law in 1796 at Hope Park plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia?

Northern Virginia

• the National Conference Center, formerly known as Xerox Document University, is one of the largest corporate training facilities in Northern Virginia?