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The Richmond Times-Dispatch drew national attention for its coverage of a December 21, 2004, attack by a suicide bomber on an American military base in Mosul, Iraq. The deadliest attack on an American military installation since the war began, the attack injured 69 people and killed 22, including two with the Virginia National Guard's Richmond ...
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."
On January 26, 1903, The Evening Leader merged with The Richmond News, which Harvey L. Wilson had founded in 1899 and John L. Williams had bought in 1900, to form The Richmond News Leader, owned by Williams. On the same day, Bryan's The Times and Williams' The Richmond Dispatch merged to become the Richmond Times-Dispatch, owned by Bryan
The Richmond Slave Trade: The Economic Backbone of the Old Dominion (2012) Tyler-McGraw, Marie, and Gregg D. Kimball. In Bondage and Freedom: Antebellum Black Life in Richmond, Virginia (Valentine Museum, 1988) Tyler-McGraw, Marie. At the falls: Richmond, Virginia and its people (U of North Carolina Press, 1994) ISBN 978-0807844762
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.
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Chimborazo Hill was one of Richmond's "seven hills" [5] and thought to have been so named by a local world-traveler because of its topographical likeness to the Ecuadorian volcano. [6] A brewery had dug cellars in the Richmond hill to store beer. At the top of the cellars was a hole that acted as a chimney.