The Shockoe ExaminerBlogging the History of Richmond, Virginia: Future of Richmond’s Past Public Forum, May 12th - Harris Hall Auditorium, VCU Monroe Park Campus, 7-9 pm

Friday, May 7, 2010

Future of Richmond’s Past Public Forum, May 12th - Harris Hall Auditorium, VCU Monroe Park Campus, 7-9 pm

VCU Hosts the Future of Richmond’s Past Public Forum as Part of an Ongoing Conversation about the City’s Shared History

5/5/2010
Plan to join the Future of Richmond’s Past for a public forum hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University.

Wednesday, May 12
7 to 9 p.m.
Grace E. Harris Hall (formerly the VCU Business Building)
Harris Hall Auditorium
1015 Floyd Ave.

Participants will have a unique opportunity to provide feedback to questions about Richmond’s history and see audience results instantly through interactive audience polling technology.

Richmonders have spoken, listened and learned at community meetings. Where are we now? The program continues the Future of Richmond’s Past conversations about our city’s shared history. Join presidents of VCU, Virginia Union and the University of Richmond and leaders of our city’s cultural and historical institutions.

Free parking will be available in the VV Lot at the corner of Harrison Street and Floyd Avenue, as well as the West Main Street Parking Deck, 801 W. Main St. Parking passes will be provided.

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Contributors:

Ray Bonis:

Ray worked at VCU Libraries' James Branch Cabell Library from 1989 until 2021. He is the co-author of Virginia Commonwealth University (2006) and Greetings from Richmond (2009) - an architectural history of the city.

Selden Richardson:

Architectural historian and author of Built By Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia (2006), The Tri-State Gang in Richmond: Murder and Robbery in the Great Depression. (2012), and Richmond Murder & Mayhem (2023)

On History:

"The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today...The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow."
-- G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962) from his "Autobiography of an Historian," An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949).

Key Dates in Richmond History
(more to follow)

1737 – William Mayo laid out the original street plan for the town of Richmond on land provided by William Byrd II.

1742 – Chartered as a town

1780 – Virginia’s state capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond.

1782 – Incorporated as a city.

1788 - Virginia State Capitol building completed.

1860-1865 – Serves as capital of the Confederate States of America.

1910 - Manchester, the city located just south of the James, is consolidated with Richmond.

1949 - Oliver Hill (1907-2007) elected to City Council, first African American since Reconstruction.

1968 - Virginia Commonwealth University created by the merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond Professional Institute.

1977 - Henry Marsh elected as first African American mayor of Richmond.

2009 – Shockoe Examiner founded.