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Cristina Meehan First Year Seminar Second Essay- West Duval Street: Economic and Racial Transformations 1885-1923 March 23rd 2011 At the end of the Civil War, Richmond, Virginia, is a blank canvas. Richmond’s social hierarchy is shattered by the abolition of slavery and … Continue reading →

Cristina Meehan FYS Paper: Third Essay Duval Street A Sense of Place 4/18/2011       Places are defined by their sense of place. Sense of place is the subjective attachment of a person to a familiar place. This subjective experience … Continue reading →

In the mid-1900s Duval Street started to experience reconstruction and construction improvement that gave it a new image and purpose in the city. The majority of Duval Street photos from this time period are associated with the Central Improvement Association … Continue reading →

Cristina Meehan FYS Paper #1 Duval Street: The Boundary Line 2/20/2011 What images does the word ‘boundary’ invoke? What is a boundary? Is it a wall, a fence, or a street? Does a boundary keep something in or keep someone … Continue reading →

Duval Street borders the Richmond Petersburg Turnpike and is located at the NNW corner of the grid of streets that make up the bulk of downtown Richmond. In many news stories I read on the Richmond Daily Dispatch, Duval Street’s … Continue reading →

The reading expert from All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions brought up some very interesting psychological phenomenon in how we form schemas of regions. Regional identities seem to be abstractly defined and affected by many factors. Throughout the paper … Continue reading →