The occasion coincided with Florida getting ready to celebrate 249 years of America, just ahead of the Fourth of July.

The exhibit features artifacts from when George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had a presence in the former colony of Virginia, pre-dating the Revolutionary War.

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses the Declaration of Independence and what inspired the Founders to ...

George Washington and Thomas Jefferson led almost every effort Virginia and the colonies undertook during the during the American Revolution and the early United States. Historian and author ...

Statue of George Washington in Union Square Park. Angel Chevrestt. There are more than a half-dozen monuments on city property honoring slave-holder Washington, also America’s first president ...

And in 1779, Virginia’s wartime governor, Thomas Jefferson, signed a proclamation declaring Thursday, Dec. 9, “a day of publick and solemn thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God.” ...