City Council
Information about the City Council in Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War

 Written Accounts

1866-09-13, notes on cemetery interments from Cholera at Shockoe and “Mechanics” (colored) Cemeteries, notes that the Freedmen’s Bureau uses Mechanics Cemetery for burials of “deceased negroes” (Chimborazo)
1871-09-02, Richmond Daily State Journal; petition to be presented to City Council to sell Libby Hill and buy Chimborazo, which is in “every way adapted for a beautiful and attractive park.”
1871-09-02, Richmond Dispatch; petition before City Council to sell Libby Hill lots in order to purchase Chimborazo for use as a public park
1872-07-30, Richmond Daily State Journal; editorial paragraph advocating for City Council to purchase Chimborazo Heights for a park, even if it meant disposing of Libby Hill to do so. Chimborazo property is “now in court” and could probably be purchased “
1872-08-12, Richmond Daily State Journal; citizens of Church and Union Hill will petition City Council for the purchase of Chimborazo Hill for a park.
1872-08-16, Richmond Daily State Journal; bill to proposal to purchase Chimborazo Hill for a park in city council – laid on the table
1872-08-16, Richmond Dispatch; two resolutions offered before City Council regarding acquiring Chimborazo for a park – one which would sell Marshall Park to pay for it (tabled), and another to condemn twenty acres of land there, until ownership can be det
1874-07-16, Richmond Dispatch; letter to the editor advocating Chimborazo for a park – notes that the filling in of Bloody Run was recently ordered by the City Council.
1874-11-10, Richmond Dispatch; City Council debates Chimborazo as a park and eventually appropriates $35,000 for its purchase
1874-11-16, Richmond Dispatch; editorial column urging City Council to purchase “the ragged and desolate hill called Chimborazo” for a park – eastern end of the city is “horribly gullied, and bare, and repulsive.”

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