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Cities in Virginia: stories to listen to | HearLore
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Cities in Virginia
Norfolk, VirginiaAdam Thoroughgood arrived in Virginia from King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, in 1622. He persuaded 105 people to settle the colony and received a large land…
Richmond, VirginiaIn early 1737, planter William Byrd II commissioned Major William Mayo to lay out the original town grid for a settlement that would become Richmond.