A rust-coloured 1875 almanac, a cloth envelope and a silver coin were found on Wednesday in a time capsule that sat beneath a towering statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee in the US state of Virginia for more than 130 years.
Another book, tattered with a pink cover, appeared to be an edition of "The Huguenot Lovers: A Tale of the Old Dominion" by Collinson Pierrepont Edwards Burgwyn. There also appeared to a pamphlet of some kind.
There were three books total, all of which appeared to be water damaged. Governor Ralph Northam said the books, once dry, will shed light on what people were thinking here in the late 19th century.
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