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• Position: VIRGINIA - Historic speaker's chair of Virginia legislature - Brief article

It evaded a fiery demise in 1747, steadfastly supported burgesses' backsides through generations of historic debates and weathered the Revolutionary and Civil wars. Virginia's throne-like speaker's chair is no ordinary antique. Made in the 1730s and used in the Colonial House of Burgesses, it was retired from service in 1874 and has been on loan to Colonial Williamsburg since the 1930s. It was returned to Richmond in January to mark the 400th...