A collection of items that may be enlightening to others and interesting to all.
The wind off the James River always seemed colder near Church Hill. In the late 1920s, when Richmond was still wrapped in coal smoke and streetcar bells, people began whispering about something that moved between the shadows of the Hollywood Cemetery hills and the old Church Hill Tunnel. They said it was not a man, not an animal, but something burned and broken that crawled from the earth itself.
Snow lay in filthy gray drifts along Clark Street on the city’s North Side. Inside a brick garage at 2122 North Clark Street, seven men waited in the cold, believing they were about to make the biggest liquor deal of their lives.
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Red Ribbon Week began as a tribute to a slain DEA Agent. Use the links below and listen to our podcast #S2E9 for details about the History of Red Ribbon Week.
There is one line of text along the bottom edge on the back of the Declaration. It reads, "The Original Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776," This docket (identifying label) was visible when the document was rolled up for storage.
Years of public display before coming to the National Archives caused this treasured document to fade. Today it is maintained under the most exacting archival conditions possible.
