This feature documentary, from independent film group Alpha Vision Films, explores a little known and fascinating chapter in Virginia history.

2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. In remembrance we have on display in the audio room at the Waynesboro Heritage Museum, a pop-up exhibit about Waynesboro during the War covering War Bond and Stamp Drives and Rationing in Waynesboro.  The pop-up exhibit will be up for the remainder of…

This year, 2020, marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification in 1920, which gave some, not all, women the right to vote in the United States.

Today we are sharing (with permission) a blog post from 2016 by local realtor Katherine McNicholas. In her post, Katherine dives into the history of The Patrick House, which is located in the Historic Tree Streets neighborhood in Waynesboro, VA.

Waynesboro locals are well acquainted with the Fall Foliage art show that happens every year, covering the streets of Main and Wayne in October.

On August 7, 1923, the voters of both Waynesboro and Basic City approved the merger. Basic City at the time had a population of 2,700 while Waynesboro’s population was 1,750.

After the great Waynesboro fire, Mill Street, which ran behind the mill and separated it from the grain elevator, was eliminated.

Born less than a week after the American Civil War Battle of Waynesboro in March 1865, William Henry Sheppard is the most notable native of Waynesboro. Both erudite and religious he had a sense of adventure that led him as a missionary to Africa where he laid witness to the barbarity of colonialism.

Ask any professional wrestling fan who Vince McMahon is, they all will surely know.  But not many people know that Vince McMahon, the professional wrestling promoter and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment who was once listed in Forbes being personally worth more than $1 billion spent part of his life in Waynesboro. 

Walking into the pink house on Pine Avenue, the first thing Byrd Rawlings’ visitors see is a 90 mm artillery shell filled with colorful umbrellas. The 86-year-old retired Army captain sits in a comfortable chair, happy to reminisce about days gone by and quick to tell visitors his wife chose the house’s bright paint.

The Stonewall Brigade Band was created prior to the Civil War, over a hundred and fifty years ago.  It is now a community band that calls Staunton, Virginia home and is the oldest continuous community band in the nation.

Ruth Swortzel Porter shares with us the history of the German School just outside of Waynesboro in Augusta County.  She is a descendant of the Hildebrands and her article is wonderfully researched. On July 25th 1823, seven leaders of the Mennonite community around Madrid in Augusta County, Virginia, wrote a letter detailing their plans to…