Saint John's Church

As tensions grew between the colonies and Great Britain in the 1770s, Virginia held a series of meetings to organize its protests against the mother country. In March of 1775, the Second Virginia Convention was held here at what was then called Henrico Parish Church. Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Peyton Randolph and other prominent Virginians were delegates to the convention.

Here, Patrick Henry embodied the spirit of the Revolution on March 23, 1775, with his words,

“Give me liberty…or give me death!”