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VA -- Richmond -- State Capitol Complex:

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1. SCAPVA_050927_01.JPG: This was my first hint that the capital might be closed. It's the structure encased in scaffolding in front of the statue.
2. SCAPVA_050927_07.JPG: Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson
3. SCAPVA_050927_16.JPG: William Smith. His nickname was "Extra Billy" for the frequent extra payments he received from the Post Office Department for the mileage covered while operating a mail-coach service from Washington D.C. to Milledgeville, GA 1827-36. After 1836, he served five terms in the Virginia Senate, three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives (1841-43 and 1853-61) and a term as governor of his state (1846-49). When the Civil War occurred, Virginia Gov John Letcher commissioned him as a colonel. In the fall of 1861, he was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives, serving both in the military and in the government until May 1862 at which point he returned to the military full time. He served at First Bull Run, Seven Pines. and Antietam. Wounded three times at Antietam, he was promoted to Brig. Gen. He served without distinction at Gettysburg and then returned to be governor of Virginia from 1864 (replacing Letcher) through the end of the war. He was paroled after the war and returned to farming on his estate near Warrenton, VA.
4. SCAPVA_050927_25.JPG: Harry Byrd
5. SCAPVA_050927_34.JPG: Edgar Allan Poe
6. SCAPVA_050927_61.JPG: They're expanding the capital by building this huge underground network for office space, meeting rooms, etc.
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Wikipedia Description: Virginia State Capitol
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The Virginia State Capitol is the seat of state government in the Commonwealth of Virginia, located in Richmond, the third State Capital of Virginia. It houses the oldest legislative body in the United States, the Virginia General Assembly. Although it was completed in 1788 and is over 215 years old, the current State Capitol building is the eighth built to serve as Virginia's State House, primarily due to fires in the Colonial period. It is one of 13 state capitols in the United States to not have an external dome. (The others are Alaska, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Nebraska, Louisiana, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon and Tennessee.) The Virginia Capitol building does not have an external dome, but it does have an inside suspended dome.

Virginia's Capitals:

Jamestown:

During the colonial period prior to the formation of the United States, the Virginia Colony's first Capital was Jamestown, where the first legislative body, the Virginia House of Burgesses met in 1619. The new government went through four state houses at Jamestown due to fires.

After the last fire at Jamestown in 1698, a group of students at the College of William and Mary proposed that the capital be moved to a more healthy location on higher ground near their school. In 1699, the Capital was officially relocated to Middle Plantation, which was soon renamed Williamsburg.

Williamsburg:

A grand new Capitol building was constructed by Henry Cary, a contractor finishing work on the College of William and Mary's Wren Building (the legislature's temporary home). The Colonial Capitol building was a two-story H-shaped structure, actually two buildings connected by an arcade. The first floor of the west building was for the General Court and the colony's secretary, the first floor of the east for the House of Burgesses and its clerk. It was completed in November, 1705. Nearby was the grand Governor's Palace.

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