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In 1850, Cowardin and Davis established a rival newspaper called the Richmond Dispatch, and by 1852 the Dispatch bragged of having circulation three times as large as any other daily paper in the city, and advertising dominated even its front page.
Richmond Free Press: Richmond: 1992 Weekly Richmond Times-Dispatch [4] Richmond: 1850 [13] Daily Lee Enterprises: Roanoke Star-Sentinel: Roanoke: 2007 Weekly Roanoke Times [4] Roanoke: 1886 Daily Lee Enterprises: Roanoke Tribune: Roanoke: 1939 Weekly founded by Fleming Alexander: Smithfield Times: Smithfield: 1920 Weekly Smith Mountain Eagle ...
Pages in category "Newspapers established in 1850" ... Richmond Times-Dispatch; S. San Francisco Herald; Savannah Morning News; The Standard-Times (New Bedford) V.
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."
A. J. Orr in 1850 slave schedule for Bibb County, Georgia D. W. H. Orr in the 1850 United States census, sharing a household with Silas Omohundro and living next door to Hector Davis. in 1850, D. W. Orr was a resident of Richmond, Virginia, where he shared a household with fellow slave trader Silas Omohundro. [15]
One of the earliest descriptions of the park was made in The Daily Dispatch, a local Richmond newspaper, covering the maiden round-trip voyage of the steamer The City of Richmond between Richmond and Norfolk on August 27, 1880. The ongoing construction of the park was referenced as “changing it from an eyesore to a thing of beauty – to be a ...
Maurice Broaddus Rowe was born on February 27, 1850, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Almeda F. and Absalom P. Rowe.He attended public schools until 1865 and then served with his father in the quartermaster's department of the Confederate States Army in the last year of the Civil War.
In 1846, Richmond voters elected Mayo to represent them in the Virginia House of Delegates (a part-time positions). Re-elected several times until his election as Mayor disqualified him from legislative service, Mayo was ultimately replaced by Thomas P. August , who had represented Richmond in the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 and ...