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History tv. Over the next two hours we will explore the rich and varied history of the city located on the james river as we torqued sites and special collections that tell the story of richmond from its founding to today. Atbegin with a look virginias capital, the First Capital building in the United States completed after the revolution. We are inside a working public building that has hosted the longest working acting legislature today. Since we are the First American State Capitol to open after the American Revolutionary war and the first monumental roman temple style public building in th...

History tv. Over the next two hours we will explore the rich and varied history of the city located on the james river as we torqued sites and special collections that tell the story of richmond from its founding to today. Atbegin with a look virginias capital, the First Capital building in the United States completed after the revolution. We are inside a working public building that has hosted the longest working acting legislature today. Since we are the First American State Capitol to open after the American Revolutionary war and the first monumental roman temple style public building in th...

Score of subtle harmonies before a note is stirred. And the nature now is pondering the title symphony of spring as yet unheard. This is a poem by John Bannister , american poet buried in Hollywood Cemetery. Here at Hollywood Cemetery we are anticipating the coming of spring. Now many of the trees are dormant, but soon they will break forth with tremendous color and life. Hollywood cemetery was beyondshed in 1847, just the city limits of richmond, virginia. The founders of hollywood hired , a philadelphia landscape architect, to design and layout they grounds. Not rename the grounds, but the y...

Continuing our look at richmond well visit what remains of tredegar ironworks which was ones located on the banks of the river. Tredegar ironworks was an iron foundry that operated in richmond on the bank of the james river from 1837 to 1957. Its greatest claim to fame is the chief armorer to the confederacy during the American Civil War producing a large majority of the cannons used. During the civil war they had infrastructure that no longer exists from battlefield hospitals to battlefield themselves. The ironworks is one of the few remaining items in the city that existed about the civil wa...

Awards and medals and honors hes received but all of you go home and google him for a mind blowing experience. I just want to mention a few ningz that he and i discussed. After receiving his sumacum degree he joined the air force. During the training he found out that his eyes werent good enough so he was sent off to japan to be a photo intelligence officer. When he arrived to his dismay he found out he was made a Personnel Officer because his boss was lazy and didnt want to get up in the morning. When lieutenant wood arrived in the orderly room at 7 30, he had nothing to do. So he spent his t...