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unusual facts about Richmond Virginia



Frederic W. Boatwright

In 1914, under Dr. Boatwright's leadership, the College moved from the Fan district of downtown Richmond to its current West End campus.


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2007 Crown Royal Presents The Jim Stewart 400

The Crown Royal 400 was the tenth race of the 2007 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup campaign, scheduled to be run on Saturday, May 5, 2007 at Richmond International Raceway in Henrico County, Virginia, just outside the city of Richmond, Virginia's state capital.

Alexander Lebenstein

Alexander Lebenstein (born November 3, 1927 in Haltern, Germany; died 28 January 2010 in Richmond, Virginia) was a German-American Holocaust survivor.

AmFam

American Family Fitness, a Richmond, Virginia based health club founded in 1988

Beth Brown

She coordinated the first paranormal investigation of Monumental Church (Richmond, Virginia) and has, to date, conducted the only official study of Sherwood Forest (Charles City, Virginia), home of President John Tyler.

Big Walker Mountain Tunnel

Preliminary engineering studies for the project were made by Brokenborough & Watkins, consulting engineers of Richmond, Virginia, and the final design of the roadway and tunnel was by Singstad & Kehart, consulting engineers of New York City.

Brockenbrough

John Brockenbrough (1775–1852), business man and civic leader in Richmond, Virginia

Chase Page

Page attended Summerville High School in Summerville, South Carolina during his senior season after transferring from Wando High School in Charleston and Tuckahoe Middle School in Richmond, Virginia.

Commonwealth Club

The Commonwealth Club, a private gentlemen's club in downtown Richmond, Virginia

David L. Bartlett

He has also been on the faculty at schools such as American Baptist Seminary of the West and Graduate Theological Union, The Divinity School of The University of Chicago , Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, Yale Divinity School, and Columbia Theological Seminary.

Emma Gilham Page

The Virginia Historical Society at Richmond, Virginia has a photograph of her listed as "Mrs. William N. Page with child" in its archives collections.

George R. Hutchinson

In 1930, Hutchinson bought a Lockheed Sirius monoplane he named Richmond, Virginia after his home town, trading in his smaller Stinson Junior as part of the purchase.

George Sweeney

The George Sweeney Trial of 1806 in Richmond, Virginia, a trial in which George Sweeney, the grandnephew of George Wythe was acquitted of murdering Wyth

In Mike We Trust

The novel contains a number of references to non-fiction people, things, and places, like the singer Sufjan Stevens, the films Beautiful Thing and Chinatown, the cartoon characters Scooby-Doo and Superman, and to places in and around Richmond, Virginia.

Mark Emblidge

Pursuing his lifelong interest in promoting literacy across the lifespan, Emblidge became the founding Executive Director of the Virginia Literacy Foundation (VLF) in Richmond, Virginia, which he established with Virginia’s former first lady, Jeannie Baliles in 1987, a position he continues to hold to this day.

Mason Bates

Bates was raised in Richmond, Virginia, where he attended St. Christopher's School.

Meadow Bridge

Battle of Meadow Bridge, an 1864 skirmish near Richmond, Virginia, in the American Civil War

Museum District

Museum District, an alternate name for the West of the Boulevard neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia.

North Main BBQ

North Main BBQ has won many awards, but the pinnacle has been "Best Ribs in the World" at the World Invitational Rib Championship in Richmond, Virginia, which was awarded twice to North Main.

Pallant

Cheryl Pallant, a poet, author, dancer, performance artist, and professor who lives in Richmond, Virginia

PFG

Performance Food Group - a food distributing company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, USA

Powhite Park

Powhite Park is a 100 acre park in the city limits of Richmond, Virginia.

Princess Henriette of Belgium

Prince Charles Philippe Emmanuel Ferdinand Louis Gérard Joseph Marie Ghislain Baudoin Christophe Raphaél Antoine Expédit Henri d'Orléans (4 April 1905 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France – 10 March 1970 Neuilly-sur-Seine, France), Duc de Nemours, de Vendôme et d'Alençon, married Marguerite Watson (12 Feb 1899 Richmond, Virginia - 27 Dec 1993) on September 24, 1928, in Paris, without issue.

Ravenchase

Ravenchase was named in tribute to Edgar Allan Poe, who lived in Richmond, Virginia for a time and was an avid code and cipher enthusiast, and also a formative influence on popularizing the idea of buried treasure, treasure hunting and mystery.

Richmond Jewish Foundation

Affiliated agencies include Beth Sholom Campus and Weinstein JCC, Jewish Community Federation of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia area Jewish congregations such as Temple Beth El and Congregation Kol Emes, museums like Virginia Holocaust Museum and Congregation Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives, schools like Rudlin Torah Academy and programs like Hillel.

Robert Tregenza

Tregenza is currently the Director of the Cinema Program at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond Virginia.

Rodney Harmon

Rodney Harmon (born August 16, 1961 in Richmond, Virginia) is a former professional tennis player the ATP.

RVA Magazine

RVA Magazine is a full color publication which focuses on the art, music, events, and culture of the Richmond, Virginia area.

Springfield School

Springfield School, Richmond, a historic school building in Richmond, Virginia, United States

Tea Leaf Green

In January 2008, Tea Leaf Green entered a Richmond, Virginia recording studio with producer David Lowery, taking one week to cut a fifth album, Raise Up the Tent which was released in summer, 2008.

The Black Wall Street

Jackson Ward, a thriving African-American business community in Richmond, Virginia

Theo Wilson

She later worked at the News Leader in Richmond, Virginia, at the Associated Press bureau in Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Bulletin before she and her husband moved back to her hometown of New York in 1952 and she was hired at the Daily News.

Tracy L. Gorman

Rev. Gorman has worked at the following churches: First Church of the Nazarene, Decatur, Illinois; Real Life Community Church, Portage, Indiana; Southside Church of the Nazarene, Richmond, Virginia; First Church of the Nazarene, Washington, Pennsylvania; New Life Church, Newburgh, Indiana; and Southside Church of the Nazarene, Muncie, Indiana.

Union Theological Seminary

Union Presbyterian Seminary, in Richmond, Virginia and Charlotte, North Carolina

Valentine Building

The Coliseum-Duplex Envelope Company Building, Richmond, Virginia, also known as Valentine Auction Company Building, NRHP-listed

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

On May 24, 2007, The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities announced a $100,000 grant from The Dominion Foundation for Encyclopedia Virginia (part of the Dominion Foundation which is the philanthropic arm of Dominion, a power and energy company headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, USA).

Virginia Historical Society

Virginia House, situated on a hillside overlooking the historic James River in Richmond, Virginia, was constructed by Alexander W. Weddell, U.S. ambassador to Spain and Argentina, and his wife, Virginia Weddell, in 1928 from the materials of a sixteenth-century English manor house previously standing in Warwick.

White House of the Confederacy

Museum of the Confederacy, the second, and most used, Confederate "White House" in Richmond, Virginia

William P. Brown

In 1991, he became the Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia and soon became the Professor of Old Testament Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in 2002.

WRLH

WRLH-TV, a television station (channel 35) licensed to Richmond, Virginia, United States

WRVA

WWBT, a television station (channel 12 analog/54 digital) licensed to Richmond, Virginia, United States, which formerly used the call sign WRVA-TV

WTVR

WTVR-TV, a television station (channel 6 analog/25 digital) licensed to Richmond, Virginia, United States

WTVR-FM, a radio station (98.1 FM) licensed to Richmond, Virginia, United States