On April 3, 1865, with Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant poised to capture Richmond, Davis escaped for Danville, Virginia, together with the Confederate Cabinet, leaving on the Richmond and Danville Railroad.

After the capture of Richmond in 1865, the capital was briefly moved to Danville.

Three years later, on April 2, 1865, the Union Army under Ulysses S. Grant captured Richmond, and the state capital and Confederate capitals were briefly relocated to Danville.

On April 3, 1865, with Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant poised to capture Richmond, Jefferson Davis escaped for Danville, Virginia, together with the Confederate cabinet.

The Richmond and Danville Railroad had stopped construction of the Murphy Branch just east of here.

Andrews, who was a second vice president for Richmond and Danville, was sent to the area to establish a commissary for workers in the Nantahala construction camps.

The Stem family were co-proprietors of a general store in the Tally Ho township and owners of the land where a new spur of the Richmond and Danville Railroad terminated.

By the 1850s the Richmond and Danville Railroad passed through South Boston, which eventually developed into an important market for brightleaf tobacco.

It became part of the Richmond and Danville Railroad system headed by Colonel John Fulks.

Much of the Richmond and Danville Railroad ( including the section between Richmond and West Point ) became part of the Southern Railway in the 1890s during a financial reorganization.

In 1848, the Richmond and Danville Railroad was chartered, and tracks were completed to Danville by 1856.

Chatham did not see any battle action during the Civil War although it is between Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, and Danville, which contained Confederate prisons for captured Union soldiers.

Development toward the birth of the town occurred in 1873 when the Richmond and Danville Air Line Railway ( now the CSX Railway ) established a line between Atlanta and Charlotte.

Confederate soldier Virgil Caine " served on the Danville train " ( the Richmond and Danville Railroad, a main supply line into the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia from Danville, Virginia, and by connection, the rest of the South ).

* Algernon Sidney Buford, American colonel and president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad

Hallowell, along with Farmingdale, Maine, is served by the Hall-Dale School System, which is part of the Kennebec Intra-District Schools ( KIDS ) Regional School Unit 2, which joins the towns of Dresden, Farmingdale, Hallowell, Monmouth, and Richmond.

The System serves these territories as follows: the New York Bank serves the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands ; the Richmond Bank serves the District of Columbia ; the San Francisco Bank serves American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

File: Kilroy was in the MCV Tunnel System, Richmond VA. jpg | Kilroy at the MCV Tunnel System in Richmond.

Farmingdale, along with Hallowell, Maine, is served by the Hall-Dale School System, which is part of the Kennebec Intra-District Schools ( KIDS ) Regional School Unit 2, which joins the towns of Dresden, Farmingdale, Hallowell, Monmouth, and Richmond.

The Key System ( or Key Route ) was a privately owned company that provided mass transit in the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro, Richmond, Albany and El Cerrito in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area from 1903 until 1960, when it was sold to a newly formed public agency, AC Transit.

During World War II, the Key System built and operated the Shipyard Railway between a transfer station in Emeryville and the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond.

* The bus yards of today's AC Transit in Emeryville and Richmond were originally the bus yards of the Key System.

Part of the Oakland segment of these tracks up to Grayson Street in Berkeley were used during World War II for the Shipyard Railway of the Key System which transported workers from the Key System's hub in Emeryville to the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond.

A large portion of the river which divides the modern City of Richmond is part of the city's James River Park System.

EARS, the Election Agents Record System, designed by John Jefkins, is a piece of electoral software used primarily by the Liberal Democrats and the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland until 2011, to record canvassing statistics, plan polling day action and predict election results using the Richmond formula.

Between 1912 and 1936, Hamilton expanded with new land in Claudelands ( 1912 ), Maeroa ( 1925 ), and Richmond – modern day Waikato Hospital and northern Melville ( 1936 ).

As Vancouver expanded and became a metropolis, it was one of the first-tier bedroom community suburbs of Vancouver itself, along with North Vancouver and Richmond.

The act expanded Richmond Hill's borders, annexing parts of Whitchurch Township, Markham Township, Vaughan Township and King Township into Richmond Hill, expanding the area covered from to and the population from a little over 19, 000 to some 34, 000.

Yonge Street through Richmond Hill expanded from two lanes to four in 1971, relieving congestion on what had become known as " Ontario's worst stretch of highway ".

The VFA continued to be an independent body, with only five of its original clubs – Footscray, North Melbourne, Port Melbourne, Richmond and Williamstown – but within five years it had expanded to ten clubs, a size it maintained until the 1920s.

Historically, it formed part of the Mortlake parish and became part of the expanded Municipal Borough of Richmond in 1892.

From 1892 to 1894 Mortlake ( including East Sheen ) formed part of the expanded Municipal Borough of Richmond.

When sitting in Richmond, the General Assembly holds sessions in the Virginia State Capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1788 and expanded in 1904.

In 1874, it was expanded to include all of the Village of Richmond Hill, which had previously been divided between the two York ridings, after the village council had peitioned to have the whole village included in York West.

The bus routes have expanded with five bus companies now running between Manhattan Chinatown and Hampton Roads, Virginia, and two buses running to Richmond.

The CAA has expanded in recent years, following the exits of longtime members such as the United States Naval Academy, University of Richmond, East Carolina University and American University.

In 1971, Norman Davis published a new edition, which was further revised and expanded by Richard Beadle and Colin Richmond in 2004.

The City of Greater New York was a term commonly used originally to refer to the expanded city created on January 1, 1898 by consolidating the existing City and County of New York ( Manhattan and the western Bronx ) with Richmond County ( Staten Island ), Kings County ( Brooklyn ), Queens County, and the eastern Bronx ( east of the Bronx River ).

He expanded the Boston-based shipping company to points as far away as St. Louis, Missouri, and Richmond, Virginia.

Following the first settlers, the area expanded rapidly, with roads to the farming districts of Clarence Plains ( Rokeby ), Coal River ( Richmond ) and Hollow Tree ( Cambridge ) soon developing.

In 1934, the route was expanded southward and eastward to Richmond, Virginia.

In 2008, Panera Bread expanded into Canada, beginning with Richmond Hill, Thornhill, and Mississauga in the Toronto area.

After a trial season with the Joe Ruttman driven, Larry McClure owned Chevrolet in 1985, Folgers expanded sponsorships with high profile race teams and popular drivers such as Tim Richmond, Benny Parsons and Ken Schrader.

Richmond expanded to became a major organisation during the war, with many flying units originating there including No. 11 Squadron in September 1939, No. 30 ( Beaufighter ) Squadron and No. 100 ( Beaufort ) Squadron in March 1942, No. 54 Squadron RAF in August 1942, No. 452 Squadron RAF in September 1942, No. 1 ( Fighter ) Wing in October 1942, and No. 84 ( Boomerang ) Squadron in February 1943.

The suburban network expanded to the east from Princes Bridge railway station to Richmond in 1859, then later to Brighton and Hawthorn by the early 1860s.

In 1975, it expanded into operating a cooperative school bus system serving 5 independent schools in the Richmond area.

It connected Richmond with the Orange and Alexandria Railroad at Gordonsville in 1854, and had expanded westward past the Blue Ridge Mountains into the Shenandoah Valley as the American Civil War began in 1861.

Lemke decided against attending Purdue University and spent the next four years in the Braves ' minor league system before making his debut on September 17, 1988 when the Braves called him up from AAA Richmond Braves when the roster expanded to 40 players.