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November 21, 2002. Designated VLR. September 11, 2002 [2] Joseph Bryan Park, also known as Bryan Park, is a public park in the city of Richmond, Virginia. The park memorializeso Joseph Bryan (1845–1908), the founder and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper. Given to the city in 1910 by Belle Stewart Bryan and her family, [3] a ...
The history of Richmond, Virginia, as a modern city, dates to the early 17th century, and is crucial to the development of the colony of Virginia, the American Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. After Reconstruction, Richmond's location at the falls of the James River helped it develop a diversified economy and become a land transportation hub.
Lithograph depicting the Evacuation Fire (Currier & Ives, 1865) Richmond, Virginia, served as the capital of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War from May 8, 1861, before that date the capital had been Montgomery, Alabama. Besides its political status, it was a vital source of weapons and supplies for the war effort ...
October 29, 1981. (#81000647) 210 Hospital St. 37°33′11″N 77°25′50″W / 37.553056°N 77.430556°W / 37.553056; -77.430556 (The Almshouse) 4. American Tobacco Company, South Richmond Complex Historic District. American Tobacco Company, South Richmond Complex Historic District. August 15, 2016.
November 22, 2002. Designated VLR. September 11, 2002 [2] Forest Hill Park, known for its "Stone house" called Boscobel, is a historic 105-acre (0.4 km 2) urban park in Richmond, Virginia. Starting as a private property, the park has had several owners and uses before its present one, the City of Richmond.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Great Indian Warpath had a branch that led from present-day Lynchburg to present-day Richmond.; By 1607, Chief Powhatan had inherited the so known as the chiefdom of about 4–6 tribes, with its base at the Fall Line near present-day Richmond and with political domain over much of eastern Tidewater Virginia, an area known to the Powhatans as "Tsenacommacah."
Brookfield Plantation was an about 2,000 acre plantation in Henrico County, Virginia in the late 18th and 19th-centuries. It was first owned by the Prosser family and it is where Gabriel Prosser planned Gabriel's Rebellion of 1800. [1] It is one of several lost historical buildings of the county, [2] and it is near Bon Air, Virginia and Bryan ...
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