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VA250 is a state-wide series of events which will educate Virginians about their state’s role in the American Revolution. There will be lectures, reenactments, and the VA250 Mobile Museum Experience which will bring the stories of Virginia’s rich history to schools, museums, and festivals-all over the Commonwealth.

The VA250 Mobile Museum Experience--entitled "Out of Many, One"--is a quad-expandable tractor trailer with lots of hands on, interactive, and immersive exhibits in this "museum on wheels." It tells Virginia’s seminal role in the American Revolution, from Patrick Henry’s 1775 "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech, to General George Washington’s victory at the Siege of Yorktown, to the roles of Indigenous Virginians, free and enslaved Africans, and men and women from all over Virginia who played critical roles in the winning of American independence.

Washington County’s significant connections to the American Revolution are often overlooked. The county was created in December 1776, just five months after the Declaration of Independence. Many of the men who fought in Lord Dunmore’s War before independence, signed the Fincastle Resolutions in 1775 and fought at King’s Mountain in 1980, were from the area. Thomas Jefferson wrote that the Battle at King’s Mountain "turned tide of the American Revolution, making victory a year later at Yorktown possible."