This photo provided by Jeff Bennett shows the ruins of the Oak Hill plantation outside of Danville on Dec. 10, 2024. (Jeff Bennett via AP) Oak Hill was part of a family empire that enslaved ...

One of President James Monroe's Virginia estates is up for sale and the family that owns the property wants to make it a ...

About 275 burial plots will be moved from the former Oak Hill Plantation to a new burial site about a mile away. Roughly 275 burial plots of the formerly enslaved and sharecroppers at Danville ...

Flags indicating the unmarked graves of Black tenant farmers are seen Dec. 10, 2024, on the former Oak Hill plantation outside of Danville, Va. (Jeff Bennett via AP) DANVILLE, Va. (AP) — A decision to ...

Listen to this article Using a $1.89 million loan from the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority, Danville and Pittsylvania County officials plan to purchase about 289 acres adjacent to the ...

Other options will be sought to preserve Oak Hill after the Virginia General Assembly took no action to create Historic Oak ...

After Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced earlier this week that he would include support for the efforts to establish the Loudoun ...

The 1820s plantation house was destroyed by fire in 1988. Many who were enslaved at Oak Hill left after emancipation, Wiencek wrote. Those who remained as tenant farmers were often cheated of ...