Virginia Geographic Calendar - September

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September 7

- The Virginia portion of the District of Columbia (the Town and the County of Alexandria) was officially retroceded to Virginia by an 1846 proclamation from President Polk.

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September 10

- In 1570, Spanisj Jesuits landed on what would later be called the James River, moved across the Peninsula, and started a Catholic settlement that would be the first European colonization attempt in Virginia, Ajacan

September 11

- In 1941, construction started on the new headquarters for the US Army, and exactly 60 years later the Pentagon was struck by a plane in the 9/11 terror attacks

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September 18

- Charles II granted the Northern Neck of Virginia to Lord Hopton, Lord Jermyn, Lord Culpeper, Sir John Berkely, Sir William Moreton, Sir Dudly Wyatt, and Thomas Culpeper, in 1649 (see Fairfax Grant and Culpeper Museum)

September 19

- In 2005, the US Army Corps of Enginers imploded the boiler house at the Avtex Fibers Superfund site in Warren County.

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September 22

- Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in part of Virginia, "except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth"¹

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September 27

- The "Wreck of the Old 97 occurred in 1903 on the Southern Railway, when the train's engineer drove it too fast to make the curve and crashed at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville

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