
Civil War
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The Valentine Richmond History Center
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1015 EAST CLAY STREET
MCV CAMPUS VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
RICHMOND, VA 23219, USA
Website: https://thevalentine.org/
The Valentine Richmond History Center has been collecting, preserving and interpreting Richmond, Virginia's 400-year history for more than a century. Located in the heart of historic downtown, the History Center is a place for residents and tourists to discover the diverse stories that tell the history of this important region.
Richmond, Virginia | This impressive and gorgeously landscaped cemetery contains the graves of President Jefferson Davis, Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, Gen. George E. Pickett, and other Confederate notables, as well as 18, 000 Confederate soldiers.
Richmond, Virginia | This museum and research library features award-winning exhibitions that are entertaining and educational for visitors of all ages.
Richmond, Virginia | Located on the site of Tredegar Iron Works, the museum is the nation's first museum to explore the war from Union, Confederate and African American perspectives.
Richmond, Virginia | This museum is the preeminent center for the display, study, interpretation and commemoration of Confederate history and artifacts.
Richmond, Virginia | The Richmond area was the site of several of the most consequential battles of the American Civil War.
Richmond, Virginia | Part of the National Park Service, it was here, on June 30, 1862, on the sixth day of the Seven Days' Battles, that the disorganized attack of the Army of Northern Virginia across White Oak Swamp was repulsed by the Army of the Potomac.
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