On the day after Christmas in 1811, an enslaved African American blacksmith named Gilbert Hunt was visiting his wife downtown at a home where she was a servant. While there,…
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In August 1908, 387 stock-holding members organized a private club called the Old Dominion Country Club before realizing that the name was already taken. Under a new name, they raised…
If there’s one takeaway Virginia Indians want you to glean from this article, it is this: We are here. To this day, I have people say to me that they…
It was September 1965. Three male college students went to register for classes in Richmond, only to be denied. The administration informed them that in order to register, they needed…
In May of 1927, Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo flight across the ocean. The 3,500-mile trip from Long Island to Paris – made without radar or radio – took…
When artists Catherine Roseberry and Rob Womack married in 1983, they knew they wanted to start a family as well as a business that would allow them to be around…
By 1872, the narrow strip of land between the James River and Church Hill was too crowded with development to allow easy passage for goods. That’s when work began on…
The female actors that walked into the Brooklyn office of StudioEIS weren’t there to audition for a role in a film or television show. They were there to help sculptor…
From the James River to Shields Lake to neighborhood pools, white stakeholders did what they could to keep Richmond swimming segregated in the 20th century.
For nearly twenty years, a giant party overtook Richmond each June. Founded in 1976 to celebrate the arts, the June Jubilee was coordinated by the Arts Council of Richmond and the…
In 1908, the publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch died. The next year, Joseph Bryan’s widow bought a 262-acre estate called Rosewood and gave it to the City of Richmond to…
The original 1737 layout of Richmond placed the heart of the city in a verdant valley. This valley was named after the creek that formed it. The Powhatans called the…