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...that Dr. Hunter McGuire (pictured) was a physician who amputated General Stonewall Jackson's arm during the American Civil War and later helped found several hospitals and a prominent medical school in Richmond, Virginia?
... that The Chimneys' roof framing utilizes techniques common in the construction of ships' hulls at the time it was built in 1771?

...that Fort Pocahontas in Virginia was constructed by African-American soldiers of the United States Colored Troops in 1864 and was used for on-location filming of the 2005 motion picture The New World?
... that historian Jack T. Kirby decried popular media depictions of Southerners that used "clichés of racists, graceful landed gentry, poverty, homespun rural values, stock-car racers and moonshiners"?

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