Old Richmond Today
Author | : John Granderson Zehmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Richmond (Va.) |
ISBN | : 9781889569000 |
Color photographs of Richmond, Virginia.
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Author | : John Granderson Zehmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Richmond (Va.) |
ISBN | : 9781889569000 |
Color photographs of Richmond, Virginia.
Author | : Gregg Valenzuela |
Publisher | : Brandylane Publishers Inc |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0983826463 |
The poems in this collection reflect Gregg Valenzuela's passion for the history, rural culture, land and the people of Virginia's Tidewater and Northern Neck. Like his poetry, this singular place reveals a multitude of layers, textures, moods, as well as a rare and unforgettable beauty.
Author | : Historic Richmond Foundation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : countess Estella Cave |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : United Confederate Veterans. Reunion |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1907 |
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Author | : Keshia A. Case |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2010-02-22 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 143963775X |
Images of America: Richmond: A Historic Walking Tour guides readers through one of the earliest cities in the United States. The book offers stories about settlers and Native Americans, our Founding Fathers, and even famous celebrities such as Elvis Presley, who made a visit to the Jefferson Hotel. Presented in this book are several walking tours, including one through Capitol Square, home to the Thomas Jefferson-designed state capitol; a stroll down Monument Avenue, one of the first streets to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places; and even a ramble through Hollywood Cemetery, the picturesque 19th-century resting spot for many celebrated historical figures.
Author | : Meredith Henne Baker |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2012-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080714374X |
On the day after Christmas in 1811, the state of Virginia lost its governor and almost one hundred citizens in a devastating nighttime fire that consumed a Richmond playhouse. During the second act of a melodramatic tale of bandits, ghosts, and murder, a small fire kindled behind the backdrop. Within minutes, it raced to the ceiling timbers and enveloped the audience in flames. The tragic Richmond Theater fire would inspire a national commemoration and become its generation's defining disaster. A vibrant and bustling city, Richmond was synonymous with horse races, gambling, and frivolity. The gruesome fire amplified the capital's reputation for vice and led to an upsurge in antitheater criticism that spread throughout the country and across the Atlantic. Clerics in both America and abroad urged national repentance and denounced the stage, a sentiment that nearly destroyed theatrical entertainment in Richmond for decades. Local churches, by contrast, experienced a rise in attendance and became increasingly evangelical. In The Richmond Theater Fire, the first book about the event and its aftermath, Meredith Henne Baker explores a forgotten catastrophe and its wide societal impact. The story of transformation comes alive through survivor accounts of slaves, actresses, ministers, and statesmen. Investigating private letters, diaries, and sermons, among other rare or unpublished documents, Baker views the event and its outcomes through the fascinating lenses of early nineteenth-century theater, architecture, and faith, and reveals a rich and vital untold story from America's past.
Author | : Gregg D. Kimball |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2003-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780820325460 |
As a city of the upper South intimately connected to the northeastern cities, the southern slave trade, and the Virginia countryside, Richmond embodied many of the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century America. Gregg D. Kimball expands the usual scope of urban studies by depicting the Richmond community as a series of dynamic, overlapping networks to show how various groups of Richmonders understood themselves and their society. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and private letters, Kimball elicits new perspectives regarding people’s sense of identity. Kimball first situates the city and its residents within the larger American culture and Virginia countryside, especially noting the influence of plantation society and culture on Richmond’s upper classes. Kimball then explores four significant groups of Richmonders: merchant families, the city’s largest black church congregation, ironworkers, and militia volunteers. He describes the cultural world in which each group moved and shows how their perceptions were shaped by connections to and travels within larger economic, cultural, and ethnic spheres. Ironically, the merchant class’s firsthand knowledge of the North confirmed and intensified their “southernness,” while the experience of urban African Americans and workers promoted a more expansive sense of community. This insightful work ultimately reveals how Richmonders’ self-perceptions influenced the decisions they made during the sectional crisis, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, showing that people made rational choices about their allegiances based on established beliefs. American City, Southern Place is an important work of social history that sheds new light on cultural identity and opens a new window on nineteenth-century Richmond.
Author | : John V. Moeser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Annexation (Municipal government) |
ISBN | : 9781734130720 |
Author | : Patrick Henry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2020-12-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
"'Give me Liberty, or give me Death'!" is a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Virginia Convention. It was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, ..