City Government
Information about the city government in Richmond, VA during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1912-02-12, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Plans have been drawn up for a new Bellevue School on the Van Lew property for $105,000
1912-03-20, Richmond Times-Dispatch; plans for the new Bellevue School are too expensive – proposition to build it without a public auditorium. Notes on the new schools and what is to happen to the old ones, including Bellevue and Lancastrian
1912-03-29, Richmond Times-Dispatch; money requested to safeguard Chimborazo Park from “slides.” Notes on the makeup of the soil and why so many slides have occurred
1912-07-21, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Committee of Finance approves the plan for a $110,000 new Bellevue School on the Van Lew property
1912-09-10, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Permit issued for the erection of a new Bellevue School on the Van Lew property, to cost $102,000
1916-11-22, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Seabrook’s Warehouse (formerly GH#9) site to become a new playground. Notes that “a few years ago” it was deemed unsafe and torn down. Brief history of the building. Playground intended to fill a recreational hole betw
1939-10-26, Richmond Times Dispatch; obituary of Edward C. Garrison, witness of the Monitor/Virginia battle and Lincoln’s visit to Richmond
1939-12-26, Richmond Times-Dispatch; City Council debating closing the old James River and Kanawha Canal in exchange for $100,000 from VEPCO and the C&O Railroad. Extensive history of the canal. Tredegar mentioned
1965, Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee; Weitzel, Godfrey. Richmond Occupied: Entry of the United States Forces into Richmond, Va. April 3, 1865 - Calling Together of the Virginia Legislature and Revocation of the Same. Ed. Louis H. Manarin

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