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HENRICO, Virginia in the 1890s: 1 through 10 of 21

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  1. Celebrating a Leader
    date July 2, 1890map HENRICO, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Government

    The South had not lost its Confederate culture following the end of the Civil War.Those criminalized by the North were made immortal by southerners in the form of monuments.Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne and all six of his family and friends attended the festivities surrounding the laying the cornerstone of the monument for former Confederate President Jefferson Davis on July 2, 1896.The event included...

  2. Easing City Life with Public Trasportation
    date August 13, 1890map HENRICO, Virginiatags Economy, Migration/Transportation

    The expansion of Richmond required an expansion of the transportation system that made it function.Officials announced on August 13, 1890, that there would be additions made to the city's street-car system.It was announced that the tracks on Broad Street would be extended further than they were at that particular time.George Fisher, the general manager of the City Railway and Union Passenger lines,...

  3. Remembering the Brave
    date August 25, 1890map HENRICO, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Government

    There must always be homage paid to those who lost their lives in battle.Even in defeat, the Confederate States honored their unknown fallen.OnAugust 25, 1890, The State newspaper out of Richmond reported that work was being continued on the monument to memorialize these brave men.Workers at the site said that the progress was moving along at a good pace to complete the monument.The stone in which...

  4. Calling in Sick
    date October 28, 1890map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Education, Government

    The Richmond Dispatch reported on October 28, 1890, on the status of the Richmond Public Schools.Administrators gathered at the Richmond high school building to discuss enrollment and attendance for the 1890-91 school year.The superintendent, W.F. Fox, reported that enrollment had increased from the previous year.The statistics included a category for blacks as well as whites.Interestingly, enrollment...

  5. Political Party Divisions
    date December 22, 1891map HENRICO, Virginiatags Economy, Politics

    "Cleveland is the man of the people and the leader of the hour; he provides justice to all without help or hindrance to any." This passage appeared in a "Letter to the Editor" in the December 22, 1891 edition of the Richmond Times. The author of the editorial aimed to inspire political support for the Democratic politician Grover Cleveland while describing the fundamental differences between the Democratic...

  6. Livestock to Leisure
    date December 16, 1894map HENRICO, Virginiatags Agriculture, Arts/Leisure, Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    On December 16, 1894 a man in Richmond County, Virginia, recorded the weight of hogs that he killed. He killed over 4000 pounds of hogs, but gave away 400 pounds to a friend. Perhaps the meat would provide for his family throughout the cold winter, or he might sell it to a local market. Either way, livestock was an important alternative to crops, which were difficult to depend on as they often had...

  7. Feuds Between the North and South
    date January 26, 1895map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Government, Law, Migration/Transportation, Race-Relations, Slavery

    Judge M.L. Buchwalter lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. He convicted a prisoner and sent him to Kentucky. Once he arrived in Kentucky, not long after he got off the train, the prisoner was lynched. This greatly disturbed Judge Buchwalter, and the next time Kentucky asked him to send his prisoner to their state, he worried about what would happen to the prisoner. He first contacted Kentucky and pleaded that...

  8. Sex Across The Color Line
    date March 16, 1895map HENRICO, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Health/Death, Race-Relations, Slavery, Women

    The town did not look on Thomas J. Penn, a prominent white man, with favor as they suspected him of committing a rape and two murders. In Danville, Virginia, Penn raped ten year old, defenseless Lina Hanna. Penn, her owner, badly injured Hanna, an African American, who was very lucky to have survived. The rape was not the only disaster in this story. The biggest mystery of all was the disappearance...

  9. Celebrating a Leader
    date July 2, 1896map HENRICO, Virginiatags Arts/Leisure, Economy, Government

    The South had not lost its Confederate culture following the end of the Civil War.Those criminalized by the North were made immortal by southerners in the form of monuments.Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne and all six of his family and friends attended the festivities surrounding the laying the cornerstone of the monument for former Confederate President Jefferson Davis on July 2, 1896.The event included...

  10. William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech
    date July 8, 1896map HENRICO, Virginiatags Economy

    This speech, delivered at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, made Nebraska's William Jennings Bryan famous across the United States. His call for calculating the value of the United States dollar based on silver rather than a gold standard held particular appeal for poor farmers, many of which were located in the South. The resulting inflation caused by adhering to a silver standard...

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