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Virginia native William Henry Harrison gave the longest ever presidential inaugural speech, and served the shortest term. He delivered his nearly two-hour address in a snowstorm, caught pneumonia, and died a month later.

first appeared: 6/18/2000

Born in Gloucester County, Va., in 1851, U.S. Army physician Dr. Walter Reed discovered the cause of yellow fever–mosquitoes native to South America and Africa–paving the way for a vaccine developed later.

first appeared: 5/21/2000

The American Revolution ended with the surrender of Britain’s General Cornwallis in Yorktown, Virginia, on October 19, 1781. General Washington had a combined Allied army of 17,000 men, too much for the 9,000 Brits. Yorktown’s population is less than 400 today, as it was then.

first appeared: 5/7/2000

After a blight destroyed the mulberry trees that fed silkworms for the silk industry in Jamestown (settled in 1607 as the first of 13 original colonies) the colonists turned to tobacco—which today is Virginia’s largest cash crop.

first appeared: 4/23/2000

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