Template:On this day/April 24

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April 24:

• 1780 – Virginia’s government officially began conducting business in Richmond after Governor Thomas Jefferson oversaw the transfer of the capital from Williamsburg during the Revolutionary War.
• 1791 – Charlottesville’s Door to Virtue Lodge No. 44 held its first meeting. Several relatives of Thomas Jefferson were members, though Jefferson himself was not.
• 1867 – African American leaders and white speakers gathered at the Delevan Hotel to exchange political views during Reconstruction.
• 1901 – Former Virginia lieutenant governor and legislator Hon. John E. Massey died at his residence on Park Street.