Front:
RICHMOND, Va. Interior of St. John's Church.
Back:
Raphael Tuck & Sons' Post Card Series No 2396, "Richmond, Va."
ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN.
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St. John's
INTERIOR OF ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
Church (Episcopal), a plain edifice at the corner of Broad and
24th Streets on Church Hill, was built in 1740, and is the
oldest church in Richmond. The pew still remains where
Patrick Henry made his famous speech closing with the words
"Give me liberty or give me death," when, in 1775, the
Virginia Convention met here to decide the action of the colony.
Many of the headstones in the churchyard (in which the
mother of Edgar Allen Poe was buried) bear dates as remote
as 1751.
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