Front:
Richmond, Virginia
Home of Chief Justice
JOHN MARSHALL
DERNEST R GILBERT.
Give me Liberty
or give me Death)
•HOUDON.
Statue of
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH
VIRGINIA STATE CAPITOL BUILDING
Capitol Square
Virginia
Historical
Society.
The POE Shrine
Confederate
Museum
GENERAL LEE'S HOME
1861-1865.
பாம்பாம்
CITY OF RICHMOND
JULY 19TH
1762
THE HISTORIC CITY
1607
1737
1779
WHITE HOUSE
OF THE
CONFEDERACY
ON THE JAMES
COPYRIGHT, 1937 BY ERNEST R. GILBERT. ARCHITECT. RICHMOND, VA.
Sailing up the James River in 1607, Captain Christopher Newport with
Captain John Smith and Party, discovered the site of Richmond. It was
founded in 1737 by Colonel William Byrd, Incorporated as a town in 1742
and as a city in 1782. Richmond became the capital of Virginia in 1779,
when the seat of government was transferred from Williamsburg. It was
the capital of the Confederacy in the War Between the States, 1861-1865.
Back:
BUILT ON SEVEN HILLS, RICHMOND HAS OFTEN
CALLED THE MONUMENTAL CITY, DUE
BEEN
TO ITS MANY
POINTS OF BEAUTY AND HISTORIC INTEREST.
MANUFACTURED FOR E. R. GILBERT BY THE DIETZ PRESS, RICHMOND, VA.
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