Guide To Richmond

A guidebook for visitors, locals and newcomers to Richmond, Va.

Insiders' Guide to Richmond is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Virginia's capital city. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Richmondand its surrounding environs.

A first edition, Insiders' Guide to Richmond is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Virginia's capital city. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Richmond and its surrounding environs.

Best known as the capital of the Confederacy, Richmond's history encompasses much more than the Civil War. Visit the state capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson, and tour Shockoe Bottom, one of the city's oldest neighborhoods. Follow the route that enslaved people took from the ships to the auction block on the Richmond Slave Trail. Go back to Gilded Age Richmond at the Jefferson Hotel and learn the history of the statues that once lined the famed Monument Avenue. See lesser-known sites like the Maggie Walker Home and the Black History Museum in the historically African American Jackson Ward neighborhood. Local author Kristin Thrower Stowe guides a series of expeditions through the River City's past.

Excerpt from Visitor's Guide to Richmond and Vicinity: Embracing a Sketch of the City, Social Statistics and Notices of All Places in and About the City of Interest to the Tourist Richmond is the seat of justice of Henrico county, and the capital of Virginia. It is located on the north east bank of the James River, at the lower falls, and at the head of tide-water. The distance from Rich mond to Washington, in an air-line, is one hundred miles. By railroad, it is one hundred and thirty miles from Washington, and one hundred and sixty-eight from Baltimore. The latitude of the capital is 37 32' 17 north, and the longitude is 77 27' 28 west. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."