* Virginia's nickname is "The Old Dominion". It orginated in Colonial days.
* The major cash crop of Virginia is tobacco
* Jamestown was the first English settlement in the U.S.
* Virginia is known as "the birthplace of the nation"
* Eight presidents were born in Virginia: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Woodrow Wilson.
* The first peanuts grown in the United States were grown in Virginia
* The Blue Ridge Mountains are located in Virginia
* The first Thanksgiving in North America was held in Virginia in 1619
* The Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel is the world's largest bridge-tunnel complex
*Wild ponies have roamed freely on Assateague Island for centuries.
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