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The 1940 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 132,164,569, an increase of 7.6 percent over the 1930 population of 122,775,046 people. The census date of record was April 1, 1940.
Alfred Douglas Price, Sr. (1860–1921) also known as A. D. Price, was an African American businessman and community leader in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century in Richmond, Virginia. [1] [2] He owned a blacksmith shop, funeral home, and a livery. Price was one of the largest African American real estate owners in his city and the A ...
With help from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded on 70 acres (28 hectares) of land authorized by the Massachusetts Legislature for use as a garden or rural cemetery. [8] The original land cost $6,000; it was later extended to 170 acres (69 hectares).
The Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which includes three other cities (Petersburg, Hopewell, and Colonial Heights) and adjacent counties, is home to approximately 1.3 million Virginians or 15.1% of Virginia's population. [7] The Richmond region is growing steadily, adding nearly 400,000 residents in the past two decades.
Jackson Ward was central to the Civil Rights Movement in Richmond. [9] In 1940, the Virginia General Assembly created the Richmond Housing Authority, which could condemn property as well as issue bonds to construct housing. In 1941, 1956 and 1961, the city (which initially had no African-Americans on the city council) hired Harland Bartholomew ...
The second largest African American cemetery in the area, Woodland is surpassed only by Evergreen Cemetery.The cemetery was founded and designed by Richmond Planet editor John Mitchell, Jr. [2] The cemetery is designed in the rural cemetery style and incorporates winding roads on terraced slopes and laid out with concrete roads and pathways.
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."
March 28 - Highland Circuit electric streetcar line (first electric trolley in Massachusetts) is converted to motor bus operations; June - Congressman William P. Connery, Jr. dies. September - Lawrence J. Connery elected to fill his late brother's Congressional seat. November 24 - Manning Bowl stadium opens. 1938 - Capitol Diner in business. 1940