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A History of Richmond in 50 Objects, [22] opened on February 14, 2014 in the Massey Gallery on the main floor of the museum. History Ink: The Tattoo Archive Project, [23] ran from November 2, 2012 to March 31, 2013; it focused on the rising popularity of tattoos in American culture and locally in Richmond.
Virginia House is a manor house on a hillside overlooking the James River in the Windsor Farms neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States.. The house was constructed from the materials of the 16th-century Priory House, Warwick in Warwickshire, England, and shipped over and reassembled, completed several months before the stock market crash of 1929.
The Virginia Museum of History and Culture founded in 1831 as the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a major repository, research, and teaching center for Virginia history. It is a private, non-profit organization, supported almost entirely by private contributions.
The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of the Old Dominion (2012) Tyler-McGraw, Marie, and Gregg D. Kimball. In Bondage and Freedom: Antebellum Black Life in Richmond, Virginia (Valentine Museum, 1988) Tyler-McGraw, Marie. At the falls: Richmond, Virginia and its people (U of North Carolina Press, 1994) ISBN 978-0807844762
Portions of the original Warwick Road extended from the port town of Warwick through Colonel Archibald Cary's Ampthill Plantation (which is now part of the large DuPont Plant), annexed areas of Chesterfield which are now part of South Richmond, and back into Chesterfield County to reach the Bon Air area. Much of the original Warwick Road was ...
The Museum District, alternately known as West of the Boulevard, [3] is a neighborhood in the city of Richmond, Virginia.It is anchored by the contiguous six-block tract of museums along the west side of Boulevard, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Virginia Museum of History & Culture, hence the name.
1903 Map depicting Warwick County and other "lost counties" of Virginia. Warwick was originally one of the eight shires created in colonial Virginia in 1634. It was consolidated with the independent city of Newport News in 1958. Skiffe's Creek formed the border of Warwick County and James City County beginning in 1634. It is a tributary of the ...
The Wickham House, also known as the Wickham-Valentine House, is a historic house museum on East Clay Street in Richmond, Virginia. Completed in 1812, it is considered one of the finest examples of architecture from the Federal period. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971. [3]