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History of the United States (1789–1849) ... Virginia; Washington, D.C. List of years in the United States by state or territory ... Oregon, and California in 1846 ...
Virginia legislators were concerned that the people of Alexandria County had not been properly included in the retrocession proceedings. After months of debate, the Virginia legislature voted to formally accept the retrocession legislation on March 13, 1847. [4] A celebration and local holiday in honor of retrocession was then held on March 20 ...
In Virginia, unincorporated towns are essentially unincorporated communities without a formal political structure. They may also be called villages. Virginia does not officially recognize villages or unincorporated towns or communities as units of political subdivision of the state, unlike counties, independent cities, and incorporated towns.
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The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.
Botts was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1846 with 55.37% of the vote, defeating Democrat Walter D. Leake. He then failed to be re-elected to Congress in races held in 1848 and 1850, but he was elected as a delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1850 where he spoke as a reformer to expand the Virginia electorate ...
The Southside Railroad was formed in Virginia in 1846. Construction was begun in 1849 and completed in 1854. [1] [2] The 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge [3] railroad connected City Point, a port on the James River with the farm country south and west of Petersburg, Virginia, to Lynchburg, Virginia, a distance of about 132 miles (212 km).
The Randolph Freedpeople left for Ohio in June 1846. Accompanied by a 16-wagon convoy, they walked to Kanawha, West Virginia. [5] They camped along the side of the road in tents. From Kanawha, the group took a steamboat to Cincinnati, [6] arriving about a month after they began their journey.