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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDOQ_slave-auction-site_Richmond-VA.html
You are standing in the geographical heart of the slave trading district of Richmond.
To your left, around and behind you, were the cobble stone streets that led to the large, fashionable, brick hotels where dealers had their first floor offic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDOE_the-triangle_Richmond-VA.html
Liverpool, England · The Benin Region of West Africa · Richmond, Virginia
During the 18th Century, these three places reflected one of the well-known triangles in the trade of enslaved Africans.
Men, women and children were cap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDII_stewart-lee-house_Richmond-VA.html
Built in 1844 for Norman Stewart, a Scottish tobacco merchant, the house was rented from his nephew, John Stewart, by Gen. Robert E. Lee's family during the Civil War. Following Lee's surrender at Appomattox, he lived here for just over two months…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLZ_birthplace-of-cardiac-transplantation_Richmond-VA.html
This site commemorates the pioneering basic, clinical and translational research that laid the foundation for successful cardiac transplantation. On this campus, Dr. Richard Lower performed the first heart transplant in Virginia on May 25, 1968. M…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCLY_the-virginia-convention-of-1788_Richmond-VA.html
The Virginia Convention of 1788 met in the Richmond Academy near this spot and ratified the United States Constitution.
Placed by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 1907.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCDJ_monumental-church_Richmond-VA.html
The church is a memorial to the 72 people, including Virginia Governor George W. Smith, who died when the Richmond Theatre burned here in 1811. Several survivors owed their lives to the bravery of Gilbert Hunt, a slave blacksmith. A committee chai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCDH_ratification-of-the-constitution_Richmond-VA.html
On this site the Virginia Convention ratified the United States Constitution June 25, 1788
In the ratifying convention were Edmund Randolph, James Madison, George Wythe, Henry Lee, John Marshall, Patrick Henry, George Mason and James Monroe
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAM0_presidents-mansion_Richmond-VA.html
This house was the executive mansion of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his family from August 1861 until April 2, 1865. A West Point graduate, former U.S. senator from Mississippi, and former U.S. secretary of war, Davis was the Confede…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9T4_execution-of-gabriel_Richmond-VA.html
Near here is the early site of the Richmond gallows and "Burial Ground for Negroes." On 10 Oct. 1800, Gabriel, an enslaved blacksmith from Brookfield plantation in Henrico County, was executed there for attempting to lead a mass uprising against s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM935_canons-and-corpses_Richmond-VA.html
Big guns on the hill deterred riots - in the over crowded prison encampment to your left. Few escaped, most died of starvation, dysentery, and disease. In total about 1,000 perished. The cemetery, now empty, was to your right where trees grow today.