The group that will manage Fort Monroe after the Army leaves wants sections of the post to be designated as a unit of the National Park Service.

The superintendent of Gettysburg National Military Park told a newspaper he is being reassigned because U.S. Interior Department investigators discovered that he used his federal computer to view sexually explicit images.

Whether it’s a saving a stranded hiker with a broken leg or fishing out a capsized boater, a new study says national parks launch 11 search-and-rescue operations on an average day.

Warsaw resident Charles Willard Hoskins Warner, who loved history, had enormous capacity for remembering detail. “He had the incredible ability to sit down and tell people their genealogical lines from memory, and he was good with dates,“ said his wife, Anne Dudley George Hagerty Warner, whom he married in 1981. The 82-year-old griot, whose family history research appeared in Virginia newspapers, historical magazines and bulletins—some of which he edited—and led to the dedication of historical markers and portraits of historical figures, will be laid to rest today, Sunday. A graveside service will begin at 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at Miller’s Tavern.

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Maggie L. Walker installed an elevator in her Richmond home in 1928. But yesterday, workers moved furniture the old-fashioned way—using the stairs. The elevator was off-limits. Too bad for the moving crew, which had to hoist three 200-pound wardrobes to the second floor of the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site yesterday as the temperature hovered near 100 degrees.

You know you’ve made an impact on the world when they celebrate your birthday 75 years after you’ve gone. About 75 people gathered yesterday to pay tribute to the life and legacy of trailblazing Richmond native Maggie L. Walker in commemoration of her 145th birthday. “She’d be so happy,“ said Walker’s 84-year-old granddaughter, Elizabeth Randolph, reflecting on the songs of praise and words of gratitude that filled the Third Street Bethel AME Church.

Archaeologists have pulled a 400-year-old slate tablet from what they think was an original well at Jamestown, a historic preservation group announced yesterday. The slate is covered with faint inscriptions of local birds, flowers, a tree and caricatures of men, along with letters and numbers, according to Preservation Virginia, which jointly operates the dig site with the National Park Service. It was found May 11 at the center of James Fort, which was established in 1607 and makes Jamestown the first permanent English settlement in North America.

A legally blind hiking-magazine editor who was missing along the Appalachian Trail in Virginia was found yesterday in good condition, authorities said. Kenneth Knight, 41, of Ann Arbor, Mich., was found about 5 p.m. near Snowdon, said Randy Sutton, a spokesman for the Blue Ridge Parkway. Knight was last seen several miles away last Sunday. Friends reported him missing when he failed to meet up with his hiking group and then did not take his flight home Wednesday.

Registration is open for the Seven Days Battles Tour on April 28 and the Cold Harbor Campaign and Battle Sites Tour on April 30. The National Park Service in partnership with the Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau are offering these ranger-guided bus tours. The Seven Days Battles Tour will include visits to Gen. Robert E. Lee’s headquarters at Dabbs House and Chickahominy Bluff, and also to the battlefields at Beaver Dam Creek, Gaines’ Mill, Savage’s Station, White Oak Swamp, Glendale and Malvern Hill.