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We paid $5 each for our senior tickets and was given an information sheet about the museum for our self-guided tour. The museum contains personal belongings of Poe, letters, and manuscripts and other items about his life.
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After leaving the Poe Museum we drove over to St. John's Episcopal Church that was the original location of the Second Virginia Convention of March 1775. Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington were among the 100 colonial leaders who met here. Patrick Henry's famous "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech was delivered on 23 March 1775 inside the church and the American Revolution started a month later at Lexington and Concord.
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During the summer a re-enactment of Patrick Henry's speech is given at the church on Sundays, but we were traveling last Sunday and will be leaving here tomorrow morning. We didn't spend much time looking around the church
and cemetery because the skies opened up and by the time we got to the car we were quite wet. It wasn't until I went through our photos tonight that I realized we never took a photo of the church!
Our next stop was at the Museum and White House of the Confederacy which is surrounded by the Medical School of Virginia (MCV) and VCU Medical Center. We found a parking place close to the museum and walked over in the rain (this time we had our umbrellas). We paid $13 for a senior ticket for entrance to the museum and a tour of the White House. We only had a few minutes wait before the 1:00 tour of the White House started.
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The tour of the White House started in the basement and we went up to the first and second floors. The White House was built in 1818 and was the official residence of President Jefferson Davis and his family from 1861 to 1865. The interior has been restored to the way it was when Jefferson Davis and his family lived there with over half of the original furnishings from the Civil War era. The interior is beautiful and I wish we had photos to show, but photos can't be taken on the tour.
After our 40 minute or so tour of the White House, we walked back over to the Museum of the Confederacy and started our tour through the museum. We saw displays of personal items of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis.
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There were displays of personal items from Confederate soldiers and commanders.
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The displays covered the entire scope of the Civil War - just too much to describe here. Needless to say, Mike took a lot of photos and they are in our web album. We stopped by the Gift Shop to buy postcards and a couple of souvenirs.
Mike even had his photo taken with Robert E. Lee (David) before we left the museum.
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It was now after 2:30 and we still hadn't had any lunch. We asked at the information desk in the museum for suggestions for lunch and we were given a map and shown were some restaurants were located.
It had stopped raining and we drove down toward the James River looking for restaurants and decided to try the Capital Ale House.
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We found a place to park right in front. The Capital Ale House is in a 108 year old building and has a HUGE selection of beers, so many beers that we ended up just ordering ice tea with lunch. I ordered the Capital Club sandwich with fries and Mike ordered The German Burger - an Angus burger covered with sauerkraut topped with a grilled split bratwurst with German potato salad. Our lunch tab was $28 before the tip and we enjoyed the atmosphere and our lunch.
After our late lunch we headed back south to the campground. Tomorrow we are leaving and heading east. We saw a lot of sights here in Richmond, but there are so many places to go and see that a week just isn't long enough. That just gives us another reason to come back here someday.
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