Lancaster, Robert Alexander, 1862- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 142
MARKETING TOBACCO IN THE OLD DAYS and where they set up a cross which much puzzled theIndians. This was the white mans first appearance at thesite of the present capital of Virginia. In 1733, Colonel William Byrd II, of Westover, laid 114 … RICHMOND AND THE UPPER JAMES 117 out a town at the Falls of James River, named Richmond—probably because of the resemblance of the site to Rich-mond on the Thames. In 1742 the town was incorporated;in 1779 it supplanted Williamsburg as the capital of theState, and from 1861 to 1865 it was the…
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