Richardson’s Southern Guide
For Tourists and Travelers
 
A Complete Handbook To
The Beauty Spots, Historical Places, Noted
Battlefields, Famous Resorts, Principal 
Industries and Chief Points of
Interest of the South
 
Including Detailed Information Regarding
The Leading Cities, their Hotels, Restaurants, Places of
Amusement, Stores, Prominent Buildings, Parks
Drives, Street Car Systems, Etc.
 
What to See and How To See It
 
By F. H. Richardson, 1905
475 pages, illustrated, indexed
 
 
- Bonus Book -
On Horseback
A Tour In Virginia, North Carolina,
and Tennessee
 
By Charles Dudley Warner, 1882
339 pages, searchable
 
 
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This guide contains an amazing amount of local historical details of major southern cities.  
Formatted around trips from city-to-city, it includes all travel and tour details at points in between.
A wonderful picture of life at the end of the 19th century.
 
A table of contents does not do justice to this. 
Example below: a small portion of the entry for one city
 
Traveller’s info
RICHMOND, VA. Population 120,000. 
 
On the lines of the Richmond-Washington Line, Chesa- 
peake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western (enters on tracks of 
A. C. L.), Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, and 
Southern, and head of Steamboat transportation on James 
River. 
 
Depots — Richmond-Washington Line, Atlantic Coast Line, 
and Norfolk & Western, corner 7th and Byrd. Two blocks 
from Main St. Chesapeake & Ohio and Seaboard Air Line, 
Main St., corner 15th St. Take car going right as you 
come out and transfer to hotels, fare 5c. Southern Depot, 
corner 14th, near Carv St. Little over one block from Main 
St. 
 
Hotels — The Jefferson, a magnificent hotel, corner Jeffer- 
son and Franklin Sts. Rates, E. P., $2 per day up. Com- 
mercial rate, $1.50 per day up. The Richmond Hotel, cor. 
Grace and 9th Sts. Modern house. Fireproof. Rates, E. P., 
$1.50 per day up. With bath, $2 up. Rooms in annex, $1 up. 
High class cafe. Hotel Rueger, cor. 9th and Bank Sts, 
Stag house. Rates, E. P., $1 to $2 per day. Baths, 25e 
extra. Murphy's Hotel, cor. 8th and Broad Sts. Large 
house. Rates, E. P., $1-2.50 per day. With bath, $1.50 up. 
The Lexington, cor. 12th and Main Sts. A. P., $2.50 per 
day. The Powhatan, cor. Broad and lltli Sts. Rates, A. P., 
$2-3 per day; $10.50-15 wk. Gilbert Hotel, cor. Franklin 
and 8th Sts. Rates, A. P., $1.50 per day up; E. P., 50c-$l. 
 
Restaurants — High-class: Rueger's, 9th and Bank Sts. 
Richmond Cafe, cor. Grace and 9th. Murphy's Cafe, cor. 
8th and Broad Sts. Medium: Dickinson's, 821 E. Broad St. 
Cheap: Kirkwood's, 404 E. Broad, 804-1208 E. Main Sts. 
 
Furnished Rooms — On 12th between Broad and Marshall. 
 
The Principal Banks are: First National Bank, 1104 E. 
Main St.; Planters National, 1200 E. Main St.; Merchants 
National Bank, 1101 E. Main St.; American National Bank, 
1001 E, Main St.; State Bank of Virginia, 1111 E. Main St.; 
City Bank of Richmond^ 1109 E. Main St.; Bank of Rich-
mond, 922 E. Main St.; Union Bank, 1107 E. Main St.; Sav- 
ings Bank of Richmond, 1117 E. Main St.; Broad Street 
Bank, 530 E. Broad St. 
 
Theaters — Academy of Music, 8th, bet. Grace and Franklin 
Sts. Best in city. Prices, 25c-$l. Seats about 1,400. Bijou 
Theater, Broad and 8th Sts. Prices 15c-$l. Seats 1,500. 
 
Ry. Express Offices — Adams and Southern Cos., both at 
913 E. Main St., P. C. 
 
Telegraph Offices— Postal, cor. 13th and Main St., P. C. 
Open all the time. West. Un., 1217 E. Main St., P. C. 
Open all the time. 
 
Livery— Bennett 's Livery, 601 W. Broad, P. C. Rates 
reasonable. Hick 's Livery, 212 N. 2nd, P. C. Rates reason- 
able. Richmond Transfer Co., 819 E. Main St. 
 
Legal Hack Rates — Carriages: Theaters, $3; marriages, 
$3; receptions, $2.50; Germans, $3; christenings, $2.50; 
funerals, $3.50; train calls, one passenger, 50c; two pas- 
sengers, $1; three or four, $1.50; pleasure riding, $1.50 first 
hour and $1 for each additional hour or fraction thereof. 
Cabs: Calls, one or two passengers, 50c; each additional 
passenger, 25c; theaters, $2; receptions, one passenger, $1; 
two passengers, $1.50; tea party, one hour's duration, $1 ; 
marriages, $2; funerals, $2.50; Germans, $2; calling, shop- 
ping and pleasure riding, per hour, $1. 
 
Baggage Rates — Trunks, valises, etc., to any point in city 
limits, each 25e. 
 
Ry. Ticket Offices — Richmond Transfer Co., Union R, R. 
and S. S. ticket agts., 819 E. Main St. Seaboard Air Line, 
830 E. Main St. Chesapeake & Ohio, 809 E. Main St., P. C. 
Norfolk & Western and Atlantic Coast Line, 838 E. Main 
St., P. C. Richmond-Washington Line, cor. Byrd and 7th 
Sts. Old Dominion S. S. Co., 803 E. Main St. Virginia 
Navigation Co., 1202 E. Main St. 
 
Scalpers' Offices— Still's Ticket Agency, 908 E. Main St., 
P. C. W. R. Harwood, 819 E. Broad St., P. C. 
 
Trunks and Repairs — Rountree Trunk and Bag Co., 1401 
E. Broad St., P. C. 
 
Steam Laundry — New York Laundry, 12 N. 9th St., P. C. 
 
Men's Furnishings— O. H. Berry & Co., 1017 E. Main St. 
Globe Clothing Co., 701 E. Broad St. 
 
Department Stores — Miller & Rhoads, 509 E. Broad St. 
Cohen Co., 11 W. Broad St. 
 
Leading Local Industries, Etc. — Tobacco, iron, fertilizers, 
paper, flour and meal, boots and shoes, drugs and medicinal 
preparations, baking powder, book publishing, woodenware, 
agricultural implements, sashes, doors and other building 
materials. In round numbers there are about one hundred 
different kinds of industries, over twelve hundred estab- 
lishments, with some $29,000,000 invested capital, which 
employ nearly twenty-nine thousand hands and have an 
annual output approximating $49,000,000. Its annual job- 
bing business, by a recent publication, amounted to over 
$43,000,000; retail trade to about $14,000,000. Exclusive of 
private banks and bankers and four small banks owned 
and controlled by negroes, its five national banks, seven 
state banks, and one trust company, recently made state- 
ments which aggregated as follows: Capital and surplus, 
$6,961,541; deposits, $19,251,540; loans and discounts, $21,- 
491,616; clearances for the year, $208,177,595. For manu- 
facturing purposes the city has an ample coal supply and 
water power of James River, much of which has been 
electrically developed. 
 
Tour Directions:
Capital Square — Leaving the front of the city hall, pass 
through or around it into the Capitol Square entrance, at its 
rear. Turning right we see the heroic equestrian statue of 
Washington in bronze, by Crawford and Randolph Rogers, 
surrounded by bronze figures of Patrick Henry, George 
Mason, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Andrew 
Lewis and John Marshall, and by allegorical figures com- 
memorating Colonial Times, Bill of Eights, Revolution, etc. 
Passing this and going out of entrance beyond note St. 
Paul's Church, cor. Grace and 9th sts. (open 10 a. m. to 
2 p. m.), inside of which will be seen the pew (right of 
main aisle, see bronze plate on end) in which Jefferson 
Davis was seated when notified by General Lee that ho 
would be compelled to evacuate Richmond that day. No- 
tice the *Mosaic picture of the Lord's Supper back of the 
altar, and the white marble Baptismal Font in left corner, 
said to have cost $5,000. There are some beautiful stained 
glass windows here and almost everything in the church 
is a memorial to some one.