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A mural, adapted from a drawing by William Waud that appeared in Harper's Magazine during the U.S. Civil War of the 1860s, stands near the railroad tracks in the venerable and recently (as of 2019) reviving Old Towne neighborhood in Petersburg, Virginia, it depicts the city waterfront on the Appomattox River at that time

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  1. America
  2. Color
  3. Digital Photographs
  4. Fort Henry
  5. Murals
  6. Old Towne Petersburg
  7. Petersburg
  8. Petersburg Waterfront Mural
  9. United States
  10. Virginia
  11. William Waud

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