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At 92, Alta Finks is the state’s oldest voter registrar and has been registering Culpeper County voters since 1966.

first appeared: 6/27/2004

Little Sorrel, the favorite warhorse of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson, is buried near Jackson at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington (pop. 6,867).

first appeared: 6/20/2004

The water tower at Cape Charles (pop. 1,134) resembles a lighthouse in honor of the town’s famous landmark—the Cape Charles lighthouse.

first appeared: 6/13/2004

The first serviceman buried in Arlington National Cemetery was Pvt. William Henry Christman, 67th Pennsylvania Infantry, on May 13, 1864.

first appeared: 6/6/2004

Sticky fingers are welcome each October during the peanut butter sculpting contest at the Suffolk Peanut Fest in Suffolk (pop. 63,677).

first appeared: 5/30/2004

Former NASCAR driver Rick Mast, a native of Rockbridge Baths, sold his pet Angus cow to buy his first racecar.

first appeared: 5/30/2004

From 1882 to around 1955, the coal field in Pocahontas (pop. 441) produced 44 million tons of coal to help heat homes across America.

first appeared: 5/23/2004

The first Jewish congregation in the state, Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalome, was founded in 1789 in Richmond.

first appeared: 5/16/2004

Traveller, the war horse belonging to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, is buried at Washington and Lee University in Lexington (pop. 6,867).

first appeared: 5/9/2004

Clarksville (pop. 1,329) is the state’s only lakeside town, located on the shores of Buggs Island Lake, also known as John H. Kerr Reservoir.

first appeared: 5/2/2004

Since 1839, the Suter family has made furniture at Suter’s Handcrafted Furniture in Harrisonburg (pop. 40,468).

first appeared: 4/25/2004

The Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro (pop. 19,520) is the nation’s leading teaching and research hospital for native wildlife, providing thousands of injured or orphaned wild animals with veterinary care.

first appeared: 4/18/2004

The Natural Bridge, located 45 miles south of Staunton (pop. 23,853), was described by Thomas Jefferson as “so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing, as it were, up to heaven.”

first appeared: 4/11/2004

Virginia actually extends 95 miles farther west than West Virginia.

first appeared: 4/4/2004

Arlington County was ceded to the District of Columbia in 1789, then returned to Virginia by Congress in 1846. It’s the fourth smallest county in the nation, but is home to both Arlington National Cemetery and the Pentagon.

first appeared: 3/28/2004

The Great Dismal Swamp south of Portsmouth is considered one of the best outdoor wildlife sites in the world, and one of the wildest places in the eastern United States.

first appeared: 3/21/2004

On remote Tangier Island (pop. 604) in Chesapeake Bay, most people get around by foot, bicycle, motorized golf carts, or boat. In a previous issue, we erroneously listed the island off the Atlantic coast.

first appeared: 3/21/2004

Six of the first 10 presidents of the United States were born in Virginia.

first appeared: 3/14/2004

The Wolf Creek Indian Village and Museum in the mountain town of Bastian (pop. 350) in southwest Virginia takes visitors back 800 years with a recreated village of Eastern Woodland Indians.

first appeared: 3/7/2004

The state flower is not really a flower, but the blossom of the dogwood tree, which is also the state tree.

first appeared: 2/29/2004

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