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the origin of Chimborazo?
04/08/2008 2:00 AM by John M
WCVE Commentator Brooks Smith has a notion of where Chimborazo Park might have earned its name…
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Chimborazo is the highest peak in Ecuador. Apparently someone in Richmond had recently been to South America when they decided to build the 5 general hospitals in the city at the beginning of the Civil War.