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Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond Virginia, 1782–1865 (University of Virginia Press, 2000) Thomas, Emory M. The Confederate State of Richmond: A Biography of the Capital (LSU Press, 1998). Trammell, Jack. The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of the Old Dominion (2012) Tyler-McGraw, Marie, and Gregg D. Kimball.
The Virginia Museum of History and Culture founded in 1831 as the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, is a major repository, research, and teaching center for Virginia history. It is a private, non-profit organization, supported almost entirely by private contributions.
Location of Richmond in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The former Confederate capital has secured an $11 million grant to build an interpretive center that The post Projects examining Richmond’s history win $16M in funding ...
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."
William Byrd II is considered the founder of Richmond. The Byrd family, which includes Harry F. Byrd, has been central to Virginia's history since its founding.. After the first permanent English-speaking settlement was established at Jamestown, Virginia, in April 1607, Captain Christopher Newport led explorers northwest up the James River to an inhabited area in the Powhatan Nation. [17]
The Confederate State of Richmond: A Biography of the Capital (LSU Press, 1998). Titus, Katherine R. "The Richmond Bread Riot of 1863: Class, Race, and Gender in the Urban Confederacy" The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era 2#6 (2011) pp. 86–146 online; Wright, Mike. City Under Siege: Richmond in the Civil War (Rowman ...
The building was last used as a capitol on December 24, 1779, when the Virginia General Assembly adjourned to reconvene in 1780 at the new capital, Richmond. After the capital of Virginia was moved to Richmond in 1779, the old Capitol was used for a wide range of purposes, from a court to a school. The east wing was removed around 1800 because ...