Established by the General Assembly in 2020, the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission (VA250) serves to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Revolutionary War, and the independence of the United States in the Commonwealth of Virginia, one of the former colonies and future states, where much of this history took place.
Join us throughout Virginia as we commemorate the American Revolution and come together to mark 250 years since the founding of a nation and our continuing march toward a more perfect Union.
Partners
The Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission (VA250) is working with Virginia’s localities as they form their own committees to plan local and regionally-focused events for the semiquincentennial. Click here to find the contact for your locality and if you can’t find your city or county, click here to learn how to get started. VA250 offers many resources for its local partners including grant funding opportunities, networking roundtables, website development and many more. To learn more, visit www.va250.org/localcommittees/resources.
Listings
Add your 250th events on virginia.org here.
VA250 Marketing Leverage Program
This program is a partnership between the VA250 Commission and Virginia Tourism Corporation and is designed to support, promote, and market programming, events, and interpretive signage related to quests for freedom against the backdrop of America’s 250th commemoration.
This is a project that can use VA250 Marketing Leverage Grants available for $10K at a 1 to 1 match and also Virginia Tourism Grants. The next deadline for the VA250 Marketing Leverage Grant is Spring 2025. Staci Martin at Virginia Tourism is the contact for more information on those grants.
Content
Start to consider itineraries around these themes:
- Connection to land
- We the people: exclusion and inclusion, expansion of citizenship
- American experiment: Founders didn’t have all the answers so civic action, voting, civil rights
- Culture, arts, music while experiencing history
For more information, contact:
Cheryl Wilson, Executive Director
cwilson@va250.virginia.gov
(804) 205-0788