Run to Revolution 5k, October 4, 2025

Attention runners and ambitious walkers. Registration is now open for the second annual Run to Revolution 5k to be held on Saturday, October 4 at Elk Hill in western Goochland.

The historic Elk Hill property (https://goochlandhistory.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/thomas-jeffersons-elk-hill/  is now home to a facility that helps troubled youth get their lives back on track (https://www.elkhill.org/).  

Go to https://runsignup.com/Race/VA/Goochland/RuntotheRevolution for sign up information.

Run to Revolution is sponsored by the Goochland 250 Commission, which was created by the Board of Supervisors in 2022 to commemorate the founding of our great nation and remind Americans how our country came to be.

Next Meeting: September 17, 2025

 

"Manufacturing Independence: Industrial Innovation in the American Revolution"

Our speaker will be Dr Robert F. Smith.

Bob Smith is Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Valley Forge Military College. He received his PhD in Early American History and Technology from Lehigh University and his MA in American History from Villanova University. He is the author of numerous articles on military history and the history of technology.  His presentation is based on his book of the same title, of which he will have copies available.

This in person regular meeting will be in the Heilman Dining Center, with dinner beginning at 5:30 and the meeting starting at 6:30.