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Colonial Virginia Era – Summer 2018

July 20, 2018July 20, 2018R.G.Zimermann

In our first Virginia History Blog installment of Colonial Virginia Era history from Summer 2018 journals, we look at four titles. “For God, King, and People” distinguishes between the Renaissance mindset of the early Virginia investors and venturers and the anachronistic interpretation of commercialism. “Jamestown, the Truth Revealed” is an update of archeological and historical...

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The 1800s Industrialization of Virginia

September 8, 2017September 8, 2017R.G.Zimermann

Four books offer an introduction to Virginia’s industrialization throughout the 1800s. The first as an introduction is “Tredegar Iron Works” by Nathan Vernon Madison in a short popular history spanning the antebellum period into the 1920s. Richmond’s first railroad was built to transport Midlothian coal and the second volume on Virginia industry is “Old Dominion,...

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