The Richmond bread riot of 1863

The Southern Bread Riots happened in cities across the South from March to April of 1863 but for this, we’re just going to concentrate on the one here. Richmond is what it’s all about anyways so… here we go! Just before the Chancellorsville Campaign, on April 2nd, 1863, the women of Richmond reached their breaking […]

what happened to jaisle thomas?

On Saturday April 11th, 1998, 17 year old high school junior Jaisle Elizabeth Thomas parked and locked her white Mitsubishi facing north on Willey Bridge. She walked away, alone with her keys, wearing a blue blouse with white dots, blue pants, and a small chain around her neck. She had left home that day to […]

The shoney’s murders

This one takes some explaining so it’ll be a bit long… bear with me my sewer brethren… Richard Wren was a teenage cook at the Shoney’s nestled in Dumbarton Square Shopping Center, and as he got there that Saturday, March 25th, 1978, he had no idea the destruction and death he was about to find. […]

The Legend of the iron dog

From the Richmond Dispatch: Saturday, February 8th, 1862: “DIED, On the morning of the 7th inst., of scarlet fever, FLORENCE BERNARDIN, an infant daughter of T.B. and E.S. Rees, age 2 years, 7 months, and 14 days. The funeral will take place this (Saturday) afternoon, at 3 o’clock, from their residence on Main, between 9th […]