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The original New Dorp station building of the Staten Island Railway, which was also relocated from New Dorp.. The creation of the museum site at Historic Richmond Town was the result of efforts by many Staten Islanders, led by local historians and preservationists: Loring McMillen, William T. Davis and local banker David L. Decker.
Richmond (/ ˈ r ɪ tʃ m ə n d / RITCH-mənd) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city since 1871. The city's population in the 2020 census was 226,610, up from 204,214 in 2010, [7] making it Virginia's fourth-most populous city. [8]
The village of Richmond was officially incorporated in 1872. [2] On Christmas Eve 1902 a devastating fire swept through most of Richmond's commercial district destroying 20 buildings. [3] The fire was a setback for Richmond's economic growth as most of the buildings were either uninsured or underinsured. Many business owners did not bother to ...
Evan Weaver, Richmond Palladium-Item November 20, 2023 at 10:16 AM Angie Emerick, owner of The Village Forager, helps a customer at Life Styled in Richmond last Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023.
Village is an unincorporated community in Northumberland and Richmond counties, Virginia, United States. Village is located on U.S. Route 360 east of Warsaw . The origin of the name "Village" is obscure.
English Village is a historic cooperative apartment complex in Richmond, Virginia. The planned community was designed by Richmond architect Bascom Joseph Rowlett and built in 1927. It consists of Tudor Revival style brick and half-timber buildings. The building complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
Contemporary map of the Richmond area, showing the burnt Rockett's Yard in the lower right. In the American Civil War, and still a suburban hamlet of Richmond at the time, the northern fringes of Rockett's Landing were chosen to become one of the two sites in the Richmond area to serve as a Confederate Navy shipyard as compensation for the loss of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in May 1862 (the ...
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