From the September Richmond.com "VCU board of visitors votes to remove names of Confederate supporters from its campus" by Eric Kolenich.
Virgina Commonwealth University will be removing 16 building names, plaques and other Confederate symbols. Big surprise, the school is in that Richmond city.
This move will erase the names of Ginter Hall and Dooley Hospital from a spot where a Dooley Hospital once existed.
James Dooley left his home and surrounding grounds to the city of Richmond, served in the Virginia General Assembly and helped oversee railroad construction across the country. His crime was that he was a Confederate soldier.
Lewis Ginter owned part of the land that is now Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and hired the architects who built the Jefferson Hotel. When he died, he left substantial gifts to charities and public institutions. His crime? He was an officer in the Confederate Army.
--Old Secesh
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