Lancaster, Robert Alexander, 1862- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 144
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… … THE HOME OF THE LATE GENERAL JOSEPH R. ANDERSON, RICHMOND the river. It was pronounced by Thackeray, during hisvisit some years before the war, the most picturesqueplace in America as well as the merriest. In April,1865, war desolated it and a large section of it was burned,but it stands to-day one…
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