Richmond’s founding myths
Founding Mythologies at Urban Scale Richmond looks at Richmond’s self-understanding and the city’s “long paid lip-service to the ancient importance of a founding myth”, from Powhatan to Christopher Newport: In the case of Powhatan, his ambiguous legacy lives on in the many place names that honor him as the aboriginal king who aided but was […]
Founding Mythologies at Urban Scale Richmond looks at Richmond’s self-understanding and the city’s “long paid lip-service to the ancient importance of a founding myth”, from Powhatan to Christopher Newport: In the case of Powhatan, his ambiguous legacy lives on in the many place names that honor him as the aboriginal king who aided but was […]
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