About this site:

Written by: Tracy Bryan (site manager), Scott Burrell (former horticulture director), Catherine Moffat, Missy Rogers (former curator of special projects and Virginia House), and Karen Steele

Edited by: Nelson Lankford (vice president for programs and Virginius Dabney Editor of the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography)

Web site design: Tom Illmensee (former web site production manager)

Photography: Ping Amranand, Ron Jennings, and Philip Szczepanski

Archival photographs and manuscripts from the collections of the Virginia Historical Society