VA American plate atlas
Virginia
The Old Dominion
Meet the plate, people, places, and stories behind one of the road-trip game’s fifty-one essential finds.
Capital
RichmondState bird
Northern cardinalRatified the Constitution
June 25, 178801
A quick trip through time
The Virginia story
Virginia includes some of the earliest English colonial sites, the homes of major founders, the capital of the Confederacy, Chesapeake communities, Appalachian traditions, and modern federal suburbs.
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Bumper-sized history
About the plate
Virginia’s standard plates are restrained, but the state issues a huge range of specialty designs that can make identifying the origin a closer-reading challenge.