Index To Names In Richmond In By Gone Days

Author : Samuel Mordecai
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230445052
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Richmond in By-Gone Days written by Samuel Mordecai and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. BROAD STREET. SOME sixty years ago, or more, Broad street (or rather, broad road, ) contained few houses, except at its two extremities, which were First and Twelfth streets. The trade from both sides of the Blue Eidge was carried on by means of large four or sixhorse wagons; and, as they entered the city at the head of Broad street, small dealers established themselves there to meet the trade. The name of one of them yet remains in the identical spot occupied by that of his grandfather, James Bootwright, in the last century, on the first house on First street, and when he recently died, we lost "the oldest inhabitant." His cotemporary, Garthwright, at the opposite corner, was his friendly rival in trade during some thirty or forty years. The wagons came laden with flour, butter, hemp, wax, tallow, flaxseed, feathers, deer and bear skins, furs, ginseng, snake-root, &c.; and I once saw a bunch of dried rattlesnakes, which I was told was used to make viper troth for consumptive patients. Eattlesnakes seem to have been considered a delicacy, even amongst the higher classes, in old times, for Col. Byrd, in his "Journal to the Land of Eden," (on Eoanoke river, ) says: "We killed two very large rattlesnakes, of fifteen and twelve rattles; they were both fat, but nobody would be persuaded to carry them to our quarters, although they would have added much to the luxury of our supper." As they had venison and wild turkey, they could not have been in a starving condition. A portion of the wagoners traded on Broad street, but by far the larger number, and especially of those who brought loads from country merchants, drove down town. That trade was chiefly in the hands of four or five city merchants; and the fleets of wagons that would...