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Fredericksburg City Hall building in Virginia, US, in 2011. Charles Mortimer, 1782–1783, 1786–1787, 1788–1789 [1] ... Mayor This page was last ...
Fredericksburg's daily newspaper is The Free Lance–Star. The Free Lance was first published in 1885, and competed with two twice-weekly papers in the city during the late 19th century, the Fredericksburg News and The Virginia Star. While the News folded in 1884, the Star moved to daily publication in 1893. In 1900, the two companies merged ...
Pages in category "Mayors of Fredericksburg, Virginia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Jean Jacques von Coll was appointed his successor. Coll was a retired first lieutenant of the Duchy of Nassau, who had been appointed by Prince Solms as the first financial officer of New Braunfels. Coll was later elected mayor of New Braunfels in 1852. [39] On December 15, 1847, a petition was submitted to create Gillespie County.
In 1862, before and after the Battle of Fredericksburg, some 10,000 slaves left area plantations and city households to cross the Rappahannock River, reaching the Union lines and gaining freedom. This exodus and Trail of Freedom is commemorated by historical markers on both sides of the river, in Fredericksburg and in Stafford County. [13]
An exit to the West Front of the U.S. Capitol building is pictured on the day it was announced U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration is being moved indoors due to dangerously cold ...
Kulmala defeated three-term Democratic Mayor Linda Schwager by 67 votes, narrowed to 21 votes after a court-mandated recount of the November election results in December. He lost to Schwager by a ...
Lawrence Douglas Wilder (born January 17, 1931) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 66th governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1994. He was the first African American to serve as governor of a U.S. state since the Reconstruction era, and the first African American ever elected as governor.