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General Meeting: Irish Immigration, the Potato Famine, and Castle Garden

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

Irish immigrants were crucial in building the railroad that put Burke on the map.  Learn the background of Irish immigration and the immigrant processing center at Castle Garden, Manhattan.

Special Program: WWII Veteran Romuald Lipinski

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

WWII veteran Romuald Lipinski shares more of his story: after exile in Siberia and limbo in Central Asia, he successfully reached and joined the Polish Army to fight alongside Allied forces in Italy.

BHS around Town: The 14th Street Bridge

George Mason Regional Library 7001 Little River Turnpike, Annandale, VA, United States

Archaeologist Patrick O’Neill speaks on the history of these spans connecting Virginia and Washington.  Today’s bridges are only the latest versions of various structures dating almost to the capital’s founding.

General Meeting: The National Cemeteries and the Civil War Dead

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

Mary Lipsey discusses how the Civil War’s staggering death toll prompted the creation of the National Cemeteries, as well as other cemeteries recognizing those killed on both sides.

Reconstructing a Historical Place

Burke Centre Library 5935 Freds Oak Rd, Burke, VA, United States

Historians Heather Bollinger and Jeff Clark discuss how to research what a locality was like in the past and how it evolved over time. The Burke Historical Society is pleased to continue our research seminar through 2019! From 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. of (typically) the first Tuesday of even-numbered months, we’ll host free classes at…

General Meeting: Gold in Local History

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

Learn a bit of the science of gold, our 79th element, and hear about the regional history of this metal, including mining operations and some tales of lost treasure.

Annual Meeting: The History of Lee Chapel

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

For the BHS’s Annual Meeting, we’ll show a documentary on the history of Burke’s Lee Chapel, with an introduction by Jon Vrana on the local history of Methodist circuit riders.

General Meeting: Enslaved Women and Midwifery in Early America

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

Sara Collini, a Ph.D. candidate in history at GMU, shares her research on enslaved women’s role as midwives in Fairfax County and the Chesapeake from 1750 to 1820.

*Canceled* [[General Meeting]]

Pohick Regional Library 6450 Sydenstricker Road, Burke, VA, United States

In the interest of public health, our general meeting on March 29 is canceled. We hope to have the scheduled speaker back at a later point.

*Canceled* [[BHS around Town: This Old House]]

Richard Byrd Library 7250 Commerce Street, Springfield, VA, United States

In the interest of public health, the talk previously planned for this date is canceled.

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