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Friday, December 5, 2014

Happy Holidays from the Shockoe Examiner, 2014.

 
Image of the Richmond Planet, Dec. 21, 1907 from Chronicling America.

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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)

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to Richmond web sites:

Speak to them.

“Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.”-- from “The Crossing,” Cormac McCarthy, 1994.

Links

  • All Things Richmond
  • Backstory with the American History Guys
  • Boulevardizen (news and other tidbits about the neighborhoods around the Boulevard )
  • Buttermilk and Molasses - A Great Richmond Blog
  • Carver and Jackson Ward News
  • Chamberlayne Avenue Brief illustrated history of Chamberlayne Avenue as a tourist stopover on historic US Route 1.
  • Church Hill People's News
  • Civil War Richmond
  • Devil's Triangle, Richmond, VA
  • Funky Virginia - Check out Soul Music from Richmond and the rest of Virginia
  • Future of Richmond's Past
  • Garage Hangover - Check out mid-1960s Garage Rock from Richmond and the rest of Virginia
  • Historic Jackson Ward (Images from a 1978 publication)
  • Hollywood Cemetery - Who is buried here?
  • Illustrated atlas of the city of Richmond, Va.., 1876
  • Lost Art of the City
  • Multiple Exposure - A Catablog of the Prints and Photographs Collection of the Library of Virginia.
  • NARAtions - Blog of the U.S. National Archives
  • Oregon Hill
  • Out of the Box - Notes from the Archives @ the Library of Virginia
  • Rarely Seen Richmond - Postcard Images of Richmond
  • Renaissance Richmond: Finding Architectural History and Following Historic Preservation in Richmond, Virginia
  • Resources on Slavery in Richmond, Virginia
  • Richmond Commission of Architectural Review Slide Collection
  • Richmond Comprehensive Planning Slide Collection
  • Richmond Esthetic Survey & Historic Building Survey (LVA)
  • Richmond Flashback Vault - by Harry Kollatz [see the vault on the left midway down the page]
  • Richmond History Web Sites - Includes Links to Richmond Area Libraries and Museums
  • Richmond Public Schools Index (history of various schools and school buildings)
  • Richmond, Va Blogs
  • Richmond, Virginia - Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary - Great site on Richmond's architectural history and histories of its neighborhoods.
  • Richmondsonian - Richardsonian Architecture in Richmond, Virginia
  • Rocker Werks
  • Souvenir Views: Negro Enterprises & Residences, Richmond, Va. , 1907 [Images of Jackson Ward - very rare].
  • The Devil's Triangle
  • The Hat - Harry Kollatz on Richmond
  • Throttle Magazine
  • Urban Scale Richmond
  • VCU Libraries' Digital Collections
  • Vintage Richmond: The History of Richmond, Virginia in photos.
  • Virginia Heritage Site (search the guides to manuscript/archival collections)
  • Virginia Historical Society's Blog
  • Virginia Memory - The Library of Virginia's Digital Collections

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.

Greetings From Richmond

<i><b>Greetings From Richmond</b></i>
This book focuses on Richmond's architectural history using nearly 250 vintage color postcard images of the city. Published in 2009 - written by Tom Ray and Ray Bonis.
Click on the image and order this book today.

African American Architectural History in Richmond

<b>African American Architectural History in Richmond</b>
"Built By Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia" by Selden Richardson, published in 2006 by The History Press..
Read a review.

The Tri-State Gang in Richmond:Murder and Robbery in the Great Depression

<i>The Tri-State Gang in Richmond:<b>Murder and Robbery in the Great Depression</b></i>
A new book by Selden Richardson - Click on the image and order this book today.

Richmond Murder and Mayhem

Richmond Murder and Mayhem

Explore Richmond history

<b>Explore Richmond history</b>
Nonesuch Place: A History of the Richmond Landscape by T. Tyler Potterfield. Published in 2009 the book is in stock now at a fine Richmond gift or book shop near you or click on the image above to order directly from History Press.
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