Schools
Information about schools in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1866-12-11, Richmond Dispatch; Freedmen’s school and orphan asylym removed from Camp Lee to “the laboratory near Hollywood.”
1867-07-16, Richmond Dispatch; lengthy and detailed article about the colored schools in Richmond. First African Baptist Church has an enormous school, Chimborazo has a “normal high school” to train teachers.
1867-12-05, Richmond Dispatch; statistics of the colored schools in Richmond. Two teachers at Chimborazo with 125 students.
1868-08-07, Richmond Dispatch; important details about Bellevue Hospital – once a hospital, then a place of voting, now a residence for freedmen
1871-01-10, Richmond Whig; list of night schools open in Richmond, along with teachers and rates – Chimborazo’s teacher is W. L. Phillips
1871-07-01, Richmond Daily State Journal; brief mention of “colored school” at Chimborazo
1873-01-18, Richmond Daily State Journal; letter to the editor from Elizabeth Van Lew advocating a shorter school day for students
1873-01-20, Richmond Daily State Journal; The Whig agrees with Van Lew’s assertion that children should have more play time and less time in the classroom
1873-06-17, Staunton (Va.) Spectator; Libby Prison now in use as “a Sunday school-room for colored children”
1877-07, Scribner's Monthly, July 1877; "Richmond Since the War" - good material on Tredegar Iron Works, Belle Isle, Libby Prison, Oakwood Cemetery, and Capital Square

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