Comments on: A Brief History of the Public Privy on Capitol Square http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2011/01/12/a-brief-history-of-the-public-privy-on-capitol-square/ Notes from the Archives at The Library of Virginia Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:56:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Alyson Taylor-White http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2011/01/12/a-brief-history-of-the-public-privy-on-capitol-square/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Alyson Taylor-White Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:51:06 +0000 http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/?p=2001#comment-56 According to the apocryphal grapevine (next to the apocryphal privy) Mann Valentine II got lots of pieces in his collection from the old Capitol Square Museum. Samuel Mordecai I think wrote about one exhibit which was a live snake. It met its demise when the prey they fed it bit the snake – who saw that coming- thus ended that exhibit.

]]> By: dale http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2011/01/12/a-brief-history-of-the-public-privy-on-capitol-square/comment-page-1/#comment-55 dale Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:17:05 +0000 http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/?p=2001#comment-55 (From the VA-Roots Listserv)

Your post intrigued me, especially the reference to a museum owned by James Warrell.

It makes you wonder if any of the exhibits remain, transferred to a currently existing facility. It sounds as if the Warrell-Lorton museum was practically next to the privy. No wonder ticket sales declined if it took all that legislstion and repair to keep the water flowing under the necessary. It looks to me like the museum was located where the parking lot for the Capitol Police now sits. I wonder where the refuse outlet to the James was? Probably just before the lock to the east on Canal St. – Must have been a real tourist attraction in the summer!

Thank you for some very entertaining posts.

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