Spotsylvania Memory

Map detail of southwestern Spotsylvania County, 1863      Richard Matthews Lumsden and Martha Ann Hillsman were both born in Spotsylvan...

     When John and Jennie Coleman were murdered at their home in Spotsylvania on the evening of April 2, 1935, their deaths shocked and ...

Oakley, 1935 (Frances Benjamin Johnston)            Several years ago, I wrote a piece on the early history of Oakley, focusing primari...

Powhatan Thomas Foster (Barbara Faulconer)      For a number of years now, I have wanted to write about Powhatan Foster, who was a frie...