Famous Visitors to Richmond, Virginia

Washington Irving

Reported events at the trial of Aaron Burr for the New York Press at the Virginia State Capitol Building in 1804.

He is best known for 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' in which the schoolmaster Ichabold Crane meets with a headless horseman, and 'Rip Van Winkle,' about a man who falls asleep for 20 years.

Lester Wallack

Lester Wallack, English actor, played with Sallie Partington and others at the old Marshall stock company, Richmond, Virginia.  

Tom Moore 1779 - 1852 

Ireland's national poet  Visited Richmond in 1803

 "Far dearer the grave or the prison
Illum'd by one patriot name
Than the trophies of all who have risen
On Liberty's ruins to fame!"

The Minstrel Boy
   THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER

Robert Lee Frost
born San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874
died Boston, Jan. 29, 1963

One of America's leading 20th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In 1946, Mr. Frost visited his friend Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman in Richmond and made his first radio broadcast over WRNL from 3rd floor studios in Dr. Freeman's home. Recording survived.

Elvis Presley

In Concert

Richmond, Virginia

June 29, 1976