Staunton Virginia - The Queen City - Art of the Small Town
by Kerri Farley
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Staunton Virginia - The Queen City - Art of the Small Town
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Kerri Farley
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Photograph - Artistic Photography
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"In 1915, Staunton mayor Hampton Wayt addressed the Convention of the American Instructors of the Deaf. During his speech, he said, “I always speak in a modest vein when I speak of Staunton, the Queen City of the Valley. It is called Staunton from the wife of a former governor of this State, who was a woman of queenly graces of mind and heart. It received its name of the Queen City of the Valley because at one time it was the county seat of the largest county in the world, larger than Germany or France, and even larger than most of the principalities of Europe.”
Source: History of Staunton
https://www.ci.staunton.va.us/government/history
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November 4th, 2017
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