Explore the Dragon Run

The Flora of the Dragon Run 1. Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum)2. River Birch (Betula nigra)3. Amer. or Eastern Mistletoe(Phoradendron leucarpum)4. Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)5. Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)6. Smooth Bur-marigold (Bidens laevis)7. […]

Teta Kain Nature Preserve

Description Dragon’s Swamp flows through this bottomland forest and provides year round viewing opportunities for a diversity of passerines. Spring migrations produce an abundance of wood warblers, including the prothonotary […]

St. Clare Walker High School

African American residents of Middlesex County established the Langston Training School (later the Middlesex Training School) in 1917 to serve elementary and high school students. The Rosenwald Fund supported construction […]

Morgan v. Virginia

Irene Morgan’s resistance to segregation led to an important court case. On 16 July 1944, Morgan refused to give up her seat on a Greyhound bus to a white passenger. […]

Tomb of Puller

In Christ Churchyard immediately to north lies buried Lt. Gen. Lewis Burwell Puller USMC. He led Marines in 19 campaigns from Haiti and Nicaragua through the Korean War receiving 53 […]