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The Times-Dispatch has the second-highest circulation of any Virginia newspaper, after Norfolk's The Virginian-Pilot. [5] In addition to the Richmond area (Petersburg, Chester, Hopewell, Colonial Heights and surrounding areas), the Times-Dispatch has substantial readership in Charlottesville, Lynchburg, and Waynesboro.
Richmond Free Press: Richmond: 1992 Weekly Richmond Times-Dispatch [5] Richmond: 1850 [14] Daily Lee Enterprises: Roanoke Star-Sentinel: Roanoke: 2007 Weekly Roanoke Times [5] Roanoke: 1886 Daily Lee Enterprises: Roanoke Tribune: Roanoke: 1939 Weekly founded by Fleming Alexander: Smithfield Times: Smithfield: 1920 Weekly Smith Mountain Eagle ...
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]
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 ...
Established circa 1850, the Baptist church was built in the Greek Revival style with a symmetrical three-bay, gable-front facade on land that served as the market square of the town. The land on which the church sits was the Southside chapel of the 17th-century Varina Parish and the main church of Bristol Parish.
Family home, located in Church Hill, Richmond, Virginia, U.S. where Bodeker lived from 1862 until her death in 1904. Bodeker was born Anna Whitehead, July 27, 1826, [1] in Midland Park, Bergen County, New Jersey to English immigrants Jesse and Sophia Whitehead. [6]
In 1928, he left The News Leader for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he became Chief Editorial Writer in 1934, and editor in 1936. During his time with the Richmond Times-Dispatch Dabney also served as the Upper South correspondent for the New York Times. [6] As editor, Dabney was responsible for the editorial page.