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Joe Mieczkowski
Fairfield, PA, USA
Posts: 321
 | | Richmond on New Years Day | | Posted on: 12/5/2009 5:02:05 PM | We plan to start the new year with a trip to Richmond, VA.
I've been there many times, but I am curious as to what you think are the don't miss spots.
Top of our list is the Tredegar Iron Works: [Read More]
Joe
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You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. -- Simon Cameron
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| joe mieczkowski
Fairfield, PA, USA
Posts: 321
| | Re: Richmond on New Years Day | | Posted on: 1/8/2010 2:59:48 PM | We had a most enjoyable trip. Highlights were Hollywood Cemetery (Final resting spot for George Pickett and JEB Stuart) , the Petersburg Battlefield (The Crater), Lee's Richmond Home, Monument Avenue, (The Jeff Davis monument is magnificent)Tredegar and an unexpected find: [Read More] The American Civil War Center.
Joe
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You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. -- Simon Cameron
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| Michigan Dave
Muskegon, Michigan, MI, USA
Posts: 1244
| | Re: Richmond on New Years Day | | Posted on: 1/9/2010 9:07:58 AM | This is an interresting thread, seeing on how I also may be in the Richmond, Va. area spring break? Can anyone go over the must sees, battlefields, parks, and history sites, in this CW History rich area? The CW Center does sound good.
regards,
Dave
PS elaborate more on your trip Joe, also anyone else been in the area?
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| mine run
Halifax Co., VA, USA
Posts: 93
| | Re: Richmond on New Years Day | | Posted on: 1/9/2010 2:06:11 PM | Here are some ideas not yet mentioned:
1. Go to the headquarters of Richmond Battlefield Park on Church Hill {Chimborazo Hill}, site of the famous Chimborazo Hopital. I once talked to a man who said as a kid he and his buddies used to play at the bottom of the hill and after heavy rains, human arm and leg bones, even skulls sometimes popped out of the ground. A lot to see about CW medical history and a launching point for a tour {they provide maps} of all of the significant battles within in 20 to 30 minutes of downtown Richmond, i.e. the 7 Days. It covers Malvern Hill where you may stand where the cannon were lined hub to hub and overlook the wooded, pastoral scene where as one historian wrote "the flower of Southern manhood was slaughtered." The remnants of Cold Harbor remain with some of the original earthworks and some rebuilt are an easy drive from downtown.
2. Between Richmond and Ashland, about 15 miles up US 1, on the old Telegraph Rd. there is a marker near where Yellow Tavern once stood and which marks the spot where JEB Stuart was shot. It is hard to find due to development in the area, but worth trying to find.
3. A major must see is the White House of the Confederacy and Museum of the Confederacy in downtown Richmond which are buried in the Medical College of VA complex. They provide an excellent tour of the White House by well informed historians. There is
parking in the MCV parking deck.
4. Go to Belle Isle and tour the site of the prison. There is a walking bridge across the James River. It is free. It is very near Tredegar.
There is much, much more. These are just off the top of my head.
Oh----If you go the to the Petersburg area DO NOT miss the Pamplin Park complex dedicated the the Civil War soldier. A multimillion dollar complex built by a wealthy VA philanthropist whose name escapes me. It is first class all the way.--------And, just across the road, U.S. 460, you can walk into the woods a few yards and find yourself standing on the exact spot where Gen. A.P. Hill was shot. There is a marker there .
If you are interested in Civil War books, there is a store in the suburb of Bon Air which although fairly small in size, has an incredible inventory, especially ANV and the war in the East.
Have fun!
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