Excerpt from Richmond as a Manufacturing and Trading Centre: Including a Historical Sketch of the City Col. Byrd had at this time tobacco warehouses located at about where the Exchange hotel now stands, and the settlement was known as Byrd's. Warehouse. Belvidere, one of his residences, was on the hill beyond the site of the State Penitentiary. The name is preserved in that of one of the streets of the city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.