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During 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery. Richmond Reconstruction began. Richmond’s Theological School for Freedmen, later becoming Virginia Union University, was established that year. In 1866, the first organized Memorial Day was celebrated in Richmond at Oakwood Cemetery near Church Hill on the Nine Mile Road. Many fallen Confederate troops were buried there and at Hollywood Cemetery, just west of the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond.

In 1869, the segregated public school system was started in the city. Black voters registered in the city’s first municipal election since the end of the Civil War. One year later, Virginia was readmitted to the Union with a new Constitution and Federal troops were removed from the city. 1870 has been called the Year of Disasters. The worst flood in 100 years Read the rest of this entry »