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General Site Info => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lt.Del on March 13, 2009, 09:26:31 pm
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Many of you know one of my hobbies, aside from good ole chevy trucks, is history. Being in Richmond, surrounded by history, I cannot help but to love history. My wife always complains I read and posses too many books. Sorry, but my nearly 5,000 books simply isn't enough yet.
Check out what I did tonight. Many of you will recognize some of these authors....
www.InfiniteBookShelf.com
click on the Lincoln Forum
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That is so cool. What a privaledge! The only history we have here is the Petroleum museum, which is pretty cool, and going to the dump grounds and playing "How old is that Beer can?" My wife and I do collect indian artifacts, but havent been able to go hunting for a while.
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That's pretty cool Sgt. I was down there Fri and came back today. There is alot of history there. The hotel we stayed in (across from the channel 6 CBS bldg) had a booklet in the room filled with history from the area. If we had more time I would've loved to check out some of the museums.
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you were about 5 miles from me, I am about 5 miles west of there just off of Broad Street--I can almost see the channel 6 (the south's first television station) tower from my house.
I was on a walking tour Saturday with a Richmond Battlefield Park Service Ranger tracing Lincoln's steps that he took two days after the fall and burning of Richmond, and nine days prior to his death. He got off his boat off the James River and walked up 17th street to Main street, went to Jeff Davis's White house of the confederacy and sat in his office chair hours after Davis left. 17th street is directly under the 6 lanes of interstate 95 in downtown Richmond as the interstated passes the old Main Street Station whose clock tower is just feet from the guardrail of 95.
He then went to the Richmond Capitol building, designed by Jefferson, and rode in his wagon around the capitol building. Then went back to his ship for the night and the following day left for Washington.
We spent about two hours walking the streets of richmond following his steps and stopping where he stopped. that was cool. I'll post pics a little later.
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I think that would be neat to see, my wife, not so much.
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That is so cool. What a privaledge! The only history we have here is the Petroleum museum, which is pretty cool, and going to the dump grounds and playing "How old is that Beer can?" My wife and I do collect indian artifacts, but havent been able to go hunting for a while.
HEY that petroleum muesum has the Jim Hall Chapparal Race cars..........
(http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv2/Q-ship/Chapparal%20Museum/DSC_0040.jpg)