The mirror., 1916-01-20
y Richmond, Virginia.
A Descriptive and Interesting Rambe About the
Historic Capitol City of Virginia.
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Then there is old musket, the barrel of which has
open along length; exposing several
charges of powder and ball. The guide who old soldier
very and does his best explain particular OBJ
in which the visitor show interest Coming as do
family of soldiers always take great deal of interest
in military anything that used to equip
That muket barrel aroused curiosity asked the guide
many charges gum He said that
the using the must have been excited and did not
the failure of the charge explode when he the
trigger
few blocks west from the Confederate White House is
another This large square, twostoy brick house.
we'll back welkept lawn. This building the resi-
dence of John Marshall time chief justice of the United
States Supreme Court The which this old house
fronts is named for the late Chief Justice
Many of the for famous in the his
tory this counry the north side of the river finds
named for Clay Adams, Madison Monroe and many
other noted while the south side of the the
those of noted naval officers them Perry Porter
Hull and Decatur.
On Broad street, one may board any of
the parks the CITY, Gamblers Hill park while not
very large quite pleasing the The Park series
Terraces the lower being almost level with the
rver while the terrace level with the greater part of
the city, On the brow of the h and just outside the park
CASTLE This castle while large almost per-
feet model of overlooking Craarthy Firth in Scotland
built by named Ferrego who later tried set him.
self up modern Buebeard His ambition nipped in
the bud and he another castle only quarter of
From Gamblers Hill one get fine of the river
and factories along either side There canals the
north bank of the and the south OF the
the north bank the Chesapeake Ohio canal is the longest
and time used for transportation; it is used
solely for the mills and factories along banks
The tobacco factories -four mills paper mills rolling mills
sash and door factories along this CANAL all of which derive
from its water The shorter CANAL furnishes power
large electric stations the river The
the south bank furnishes large
flour mill In the upper reaches of the river is the historic
old Belle Ie This the cite of Confederate prison.
but used large iron foundry On the north bank
opposite Belle Ise stands the Tredegar Iron Works This
works used the Confederate Government the
mandatory of ordinance and old still piled
in the yards connected with the foundry Besides the
tries mentioned; Richmond has large locomotive works.
glass factory several trunk and factories large wood
factory Oat the edge of the city Will
liam Byrd park sometimes called West End park There
large lake here swimming pool open air theatre and
ervor for storing water for the CITY, Near the park
the Confederate Soldiers Home The the Home
all uniform with the badge bearing the letters CSA
their hats
short distance north of the soldiers home, is fine
statue of Robert E. Lee mounted his famous rave
ler This stands the end and directly in
the of Broad Street. Overlooking river and on the
north bank Hollywood Cemetery In connection with
Cemetery which it adoins, Hollywood encloses nearly
eight miles of ground. There many noted men
buried her and fine and mausoeums are to
be Just inside and to the left of the gate
stands soldiers Pckets Division There
$4,000 Confederate Soldiers buried in the cemetery; and
erected to their pyramid shaped monument about
50 feet high and feet the base the being built of
blocks of granite short distance the soldiers mon
the grave of John Tyler president of the United
States The stone this mans grave anything
ing 1t certainly not what would expect the
of president of this country little insight
fcan stone that could pick up and carry
away without much exerion.
Ona large knoll overlooking the river Davis sec.
on here of the finest be found
in the cemetery The of Miss Winnie has life
size statue of angel done white marble The work on
this monument done by Augustus Saint audens and paid
for by the Daughters of the Confederacy
East of the city is the Union Cemetery This cemetery
has 6.593 700 of which marked unknown The
striking feature this Cemetery is the almost total ab