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Richmond, Virginia
· The Virginia Women's Monument
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Virginia's women, both renowned and unrecognized, have shaped more than 400 years of the culture, country, and Commonwealth, represented here by Anne Burras Laydon of Jamestown; Cockacoeske, Pamunkey chief of the Middle Peninsula; Mary Draper Ingles of the New River Valley; Martha Washington of Fairfax County; Clementina Rind of Williamsburg; Elizabeth Keckly of Dinwiddie County; Maggie L. Walker of Richmond; Sarah G. Jones of Richmond; Laura S. Copenhaver of Smyth County; Virginia E. Randolph of Henrico County; and Adèle Clark of Richmond.
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