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The Exchange Hotel opened in Gordonsville in 1860, built by Robert Omohundro at the site of his recently burned tavern. Omohundro took advantage of the nearby Central Virginia Railroad, offering food and lodging to wealthy travelers. The hotel later became a Civil War hospital and then a school for the formerly enslaved.
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[Philadelphia, Pa., late December, 1866]
[Published by Friends’ Association of Philadelphia and its vicinity for the Relief of Colored Freedmen. Office, No. 501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia.]
A FREEDMAN’S SPEECH.
In a letter from Yorktown, Va., dated 12th month 15, 1866, Jacob H. Vining, Superintendent of Friends’ Freedmen’s Schools, writes:
“I enclose for publication the substance of a speech made by Bayley Wyat, a colored man, living near here. It was delivered at a Mass Meeting of colored freedmen held in our large school-house. The meeting was called at the close of one held the preceding evening by the Freedmen’s Bureau, on the subject of removing the camps. The former meeting was addressed by Gen. Armstrong, Lieut. Massey and myself, advising them to seek homes in the adjoining counties and elsewhere; the latter meeting was held to consider of and reply to our advice. I was present by special invitation, heard their deliberations, and felt that their