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And all of them are sober

09/26/2009 8:46 AM by

Union Hill on Facebook recently shared these nuggets from the March 18, 1856, issue of the Richmond Dispatch:

Union Hill is rapidly becoming a town within itself, and …will soon be as thickly settled as almost any portion of Richmond. Most of the residents of [Union Hill] do business in Richmond -many of them are industrious, hard-fisted mechanics, who now own the tenements they occupy, and all of them are sober, honest citizens. We do not know of a neighborhood in the States where the laws are more rigidly observed by all classes than on Union Hill, and where, in the same amount of population, as few crimes are committed. The residents act as their own policemen.


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