BREAKING NEWS (January 28, 2013)
Grant awarded for Czech and Slovak folklife festival
The Prince George County Regional Heritage Center, in conjunction with the Virginia Czech/Slovak Heritage Society, was recently awarded a grant from the Virginia Foundation for Humanities. The project will include a series of oral history interviews, digitization of historic documents and a one-day cultural festival to be held this October. The focus will be on the Virginia Czech and Slovak community's musical and culinary traditions. If you would like to be a part of the effort or have historical items to share, please contact us. Read more about the grant program.
Roadside marker unveiled at Church of the Sacred Heart
A roadside marker as installed in December to commemorate the community of New Bohemia in Prince George, Virginia. Photos from the ceremony can be viewed on the Progress-Index website.
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Grant awarded for Czech and Slovak folklife festival
The Prince George County Regional Heritage Center, in conjunction with the Virginia Czech/Slovak Heritage Society, was recently awarded a grant from the Virginia Foundation for Humanities. The project will include a series of oral history interviews, digitization of historic documents and a one-day cultural festival to be held this October. The focus will be on the Virginia Czech and Slovak community's musical and culinary traditions. If you would like to be a part of the effort or have historical items to share, please contact us. Read more about the grant program.
Roadside marker unveiled at Church of the Sacred Heart
A roadside marker as installed in December to commemorate the community of New Bohemia in Prince George, Virginia. Photos from the ceremony can be viewed on the Progress-Index website.
ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION:
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Between 1885 and 1920, over 700 Slavic families came from either Western states or directly from Eastern Europe to settle in Virginia. The greatest number settled in the counties of Prince George, Dinwiddie, and Chesterfield counties surrounding Petersburg, Virginia, mostly on farmlands that had been abandoned after the battles of the American Civil War that had raged in the area. Others settled in Charles City, Hanover, Henrico, Greensville, New Kent and other
counties of Virginia. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Members are Descendants of (or interested in) the Czech/Slovaks who settled in the State of Virginia, including the counties of Dinwiddie, Chesterfield, Greensville, Henrico, Hanover, New Kent, Prince George and Surry between 1885 and 1920. ----------------------- Our Mission is to Discover, Document and Promote Our Czech/Slovak Heritage |
We do this by:
Building a "virtual library" of all available books, newspaper articles and other materials (See Bibliography Project). Documenting genealogical information of all area Czech/Slovaks (See Village/Database Project) in order to help families re-connect. Sponsoring events (Recipe Collection, Christmas Celebration, Easter Event, Farm and Cemetery Tours) that promote our Heritage (food, customs, folkdress, religion). Encouraging knowledge of Czech/Slovak language and phrases, assistance in translating family documents. Encouraging visits to family villages in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Romania. "Giving back" to our ancestral homelands in thankfulness for our rich heritage (tours, continuting contact with our relatives, fund-raisers, charitable contributions). |