Wicked Richmond
Home to many of the nation's original founders and statesmen, Richmond has a history that runs as deep as America itself. Yet within these depths lies something darker. For despite its illustrious reputation, Richmond has a sordid streak. Venture through the city's colorful history of vice, intrigue and subterfuge with author Beth Brown as she traces the scandalous stories that pepper Richmond's past. From colonial founding to the Prohibition era and beyond, Wicked Richmond presents a comprehensive look at the city's murky history. Whether it's tales of Civil War espionage, Spanish pirates captured off the Virginia coast and brought to justice in Richmond, rumrunners peddling liquor during Prohibition or the misadventures of upper-crust colonial families, Wicked Richmond captures the spirit of debauchery that runs through this historic city's past.
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Wicked Richmond
Home to many of the nation's original founders and statesmen, Richmond has a history that runs as deep as America itself. Yet within these depths lies something darker. For despite its illustrious reputation, Richmond has a sordid streak. Venture through the city's colorful history of vice, intrigue and subterfuge with author Beth Brown as she traces the scandalous stories that pepper Richmond's past. From colonial founding to the Prohibition era and beyond, Wicked Richmond presents a comprehensive look at the city's murky history. Whether it's tales of Civil War espionage, Spanish pirates captured off the Virginia coast and brought to justice in Richmond, rumrunners peddling liquor during Prohibition or the misadventures of upper-crust colonial families, Wicked Richmond captures the spirit of debauchery that runs through this historic city's past.
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Wicked Richmond

Wicked Richmond

by Beth Brown
Wicked Richmond

Wicked Richmond

by Beth Brown

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Overview

Home to many of the nation's original founders and statesmen, Richmond has a history that runs as deep as America itself. Yet within these depths lies something darker. For despite its illustrious reputation, Richmond has a sordid streak. Venture through the city's colorful history of vice, intrigue and subterfuge with author Beth Brown as she traces the scandalous stories that pepper Richmond's past. From colonial founding to the Prohibition era and beyond, Wicked Richmond presents a comprehensive look at the city's murky history. Whether it's tales of Civil War espionage, Spanish pirates captured off the Virginia coast and brought to justice in Richmond, rumrunners peddling liquor during Prohibition or the misadventures of upper-crust colonial families, Wicked Richmond captures the spirit of debauchery that runs through this historic city's past.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781540234834
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Publication date: 09/24/2010
Pages: 114
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Beth Brown is a writer, artist and hobby historian who combines those interests to create a diverse mix of books and visual pieces. Her other works include Haunted Plantations of Virginia, a Library of Virginia Literary Award Finalist. Beth is a seventh-generation Richmonder and hopes to someday see electric streetcars return to the city.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Lust, Lost Fortune and the Lottery 11

A Traitor Arrives 15

The Fall of the Randolphs 18

Liquor and Libel 22

The House Is on Fire! 25

The Trial of Aaron Burr 28

A Poisoned Statesman 34

Averted Destruction 39

Pirates at the Penitentiary 42

The Enquirer v. the Whig 48

Hell on Earth 51

Espionage 54

Lewis Ginter and his Hotel 61

The Murder of Lillian Madison 67

Henry Beattie and Beulah Binford 73

Richmond's Smallest Menace 81

Saving the City from Itself 85

The Tri-State Gang 93

A Battle of Books 98

The Great Schwartzchild Heist 102

Bibliography 107

About the Author 111

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