Richmond, Virginia (VA)

Fact 1: The Capital of the State is Richmond although the largest city is Virginia Beach.

Fact 5 on History: Native Indian tribes were the early inhabitants of the area, notably the Powhatan tribe. The site of Richmond was once an important village of the Powhatan Confederacy.

Fact 6 on History: The Powhatan Confederacy was a cultural and political union of over 30 Algonquian speaking Native American tribes including the Powhatan, Potomac, Chesapeake, Secacawoni, Chickahominy, Mattapony, Pamunkey, and Mattapony.

Fact 7 on History: The tribes lived in sophisticated, well defended, palisaded villages, consisting of long dwellings called Longhouses (or Birch Bark Houses)

Fact 8 on History: It was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown between 1609 and 1611. Battles and conflicts between colonists and American Native Indians eventually erupted in the Powhatan Wars (1622-1624)

Fact 9 on History: The town of Richmond was founded in 1737. Its population rose and it became the capital of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780.

Fact 10 on History: During the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) the city was the site of several important events including Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech in 1775 and the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom that was written by Thomas Jefferson.

Fact 11 on History: During the American Civil War (1861 - 1865), Richmond served as the capital of the Confederate States of America.

Fact 12 on History: On April 2, 1865, the Union Army led by Ulysses S. Grant captured Richmond and a quarter of the city's buildings were destroyed

Fact 13 on History: The city was eventually rebuilt and freed slaves and their descendants created a a national hub of African-American commerce and the city's historic Jackson Ward became known as the "Wall Street of Black America."