On Oct. 26, 2023, Arlington County released the final version of Plan Langston Boulevard (PLB) and scheduled public hearings for potential adoption in November.
storms have battered the u.s. south in some of the same places already devastated by tornadoes over the past few days, more than 30 million people across the region are under a severe weather alert tuesday into wednesday. take a look at this video that the possible tornado in moss point mississippi. the storm ref through that area leveling several homes and businesses in its path. at least one person was killed, and nearly two dozen injured when a powerful twister swept through the mississippi town of lewin, sunday night. the weather service gave it a preliminary rating of f2. senior meteorologist chad myers has more on the dangerous weather impacting the country. quite a few severe weather fights all the way from virginia, all the way down to the gulf coast, the most severe along the gulf coast and south. with tornadoes reported down there. some hitting some towns with damaged on their.
even question, he said that he was freeborn. for some answers, we have to go back more than 300 years. to my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandmother mary. she arrived and touch ship in north underline county virginia, in 1712. before america was america. her granddaughter, my eight times grant grandmother best was with her. that was according to this centuries old deposition that dr. murphy s team uncovered. why deposition? we will learn that a little bit later. at the time, it was about 13 years old. witnesses apparently said that they look like they were indians. researchers believed that mary and best where actually like these people of the northern virginia, called the northern neck. we re not sure where they came from. but thomas smith of richmond county did in slave one of the
genealogy, dr. shelley murphy on the laptop. she s joining us from the university of virginia. this is a tree, just a snapshot of your tree. and i m following your maternal line. wow, that s a lot to see. in a tree. you see that box? well that represents david, my great-grandfather s great grandfather. he lived in coastal richmond county virginia on a farm, with his wife judy, and their 18 children. and in 1871, he filed this claim to be reimbursed for livestock and supplies, requisitioned by union troops during the civil war. another thing that is significant is that he owned the land that he is on. and it was 23 acres. where did the man in the 1870s, so soon after the end of slavery, get the money to buy 23 acres? absolutely. and the thing of it is, i would