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CITY OF PETERSBURG
City of First Class.
Incorporated by an 1874-75 Act of Assembly.
Charter, 1874-75, c. 163; repealed 1962, c. 259.
Charter, 1962, c. 259.
Amended 1970, c. 137 (§ 3-7)
1970, c. 318 (§ 1-7)
1972, c. 25 (§§ 2-1, 2-3)
1973, c. 102 (§ 4-8 [added])
1974, c. 2 (§§ 1-7 [repealed], 1-7.1 [added], 2-1 [repealed],
2-1.1 [added], 2-2 [repealed], 2-2.1 [added],
2-3 [repealed], 2-3.1 [added], 2-5, 2-8 [repealed],
2-8.1 [added])
1975, c. 349 (§§ 1-4, 3-9 [repealed], 3-10, 3-18 [repealed],
3-19, 4-1, 6-6)
1976, c. 482 (§§ 3-14, 4-9 [added])
1979, c. 350 (§ 2-1.1)
1981, c. 68 (§ 2-1.1)
1987, c. 51 (§§ 3-7 [repealed], 3-8 [repealed])
2000, c. 4 (§§ 2.1-1 [added], 2.1-2 [added], 4-10 [added]).

www.petersburg.com announces that since revamping the website, it has logged 127,596 unique visitors in the past year! Local Petersburg business and groups are encouraged to take advantage of our free features to promote their business, events and group activities, or just to share news and announcements with the local community!

Fort Lee, by Tim O’Gorman and Dr. Steve Anders and published by Arcadia Publishing Company, is now available. The 128 page book contains over 240 photographs of Camp and Fort Lee chronicling its evolution from a National Army Cantonment during World War I, to its reemergence as the Quartermaster Replacement Center and School during World War II, to its establishment as the Home of the Quartermaster Corps, and its continuing role in training soldiers to become Quartermasters.

Dr. Anders has been the Quartermaster Center and School Command Historian since 1984. A graduate of Miami (Ohio) University where he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees, Dr. Anders serves as an instructor, archivist, and member of the Command Staff at Fort Lee. Mr. O’Gorman has been Director of the Quartermaster Museum since 1993. A graduate of the University of Kansas and the University of Idaho, Mr. O’Gorman has worked for over 20 years in a variety of local, State, and Federal Museums. They have drawn from a vast collection of photographs, many of them previously unpublished, in writing Fort Lee.

Fort Lee is available at the Sword and Key Gift Shop for $19.95 plus $6.00 shipping and handling. Virginia residents must add 4.5% tax. Call (804) 734-4372 to order. All proceeds from the sale of this book by the Sword and Key Gift Shop will go to support the Quartermaster Museum.