Richmond
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- Names
Richmond
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- At head of James River; long impotant as tobacco center; site of trading post 1637 & Fort Charles 1644; pillaged by British during Revolutionary War & by Union forces during Civil War; State Capitol building (begun in 1795) designed by Thomas Jefferson.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Library of Congress HABS/HAER (1987-); National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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