Richmond Battlefield Parks
It is interesting to tour Richmond’s Battlefield Park, which embraces the fields covered during the Seven Days’ Campaign (June 26-July 2, 1862) and at Second Cold Harbor, May 31-June 3, 1864. The battlefields of Fort Harrison, Malvern Hill, Frayser’s Farm, Savage Station, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Cold Harbor, Gaines’ Mill, and Mechanicsville may be toured. Fort Harrison, six miles east of the city is Park Headquarters. An interesting museum is located there.
Richmond Ideal for Conventions
Historical shrines of world-wide interest, excellent transportation service, splendid modern hotels, and every facility available for successful meetings have made Richmond one of the outstanding convention centers of America. Delegates attending conventions here have a wide choice of selecting their entertainment programs. Some enjoy trips to Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown, historic Hampton Roads and Fort Monroe, the beautiful Skyline Drive, the battlefields surrounding the city and the many diversified industrial plants, while others participate in their favorite sport or seek diversions in the many forms of entertainment to be had.
Proximity to the centers of the population, coupled with other numerous advantages, has resulted in record-breaking attendance at meetings here.
In Richmond, Capital of the Old South, an industrial, commercial, educational and financial center of the new, nothing is left undone to make every convention meeting in this city successful and enjoyable.
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RICHMOND TODAY!
POPULATION of approximately 360,000 in the metropolitan area with an average increase 7,000 per year since 1940.
INDUSTRIAL RANK of 5th in the nation in relative gain in net value of manufactured products from 1929 to 1947.