Here are images from our June, 2004, trip to Richmond, Virginia to research the life of Dr. Daniel Norborne Norton. Columbia. This is the former home of grain mill owner Philip Haxall and his wife Clara. The original grounds of Columbia ran all the way to Broad Street where Dr. Norton's "Magnolia Farm" was across the road. It is to Columbia where Dr. Norton is reported to have brought his "open work Canton fruit bowl heaped with beautiful grapes" for Clara Haxall to give them a name. Here is the "Ambler Monument" in Shockoe Cemetery east of downtown Richmond. The monument marks the graves of Dr. Norton's mother, Catherine Bush Ambler, and his step-father, John Ambler. Detail of the inscription on the Ambler Monument. This is a view facing south from the lawn of the Maggie Walker Governor's School looking toward the former site Magnolia Farm which was situated just behind the Kroger distributorship and brick house beyond the vacant lot. Rebecca Ambers taking notes on the inscription on Dr. Norton's grave in Shockoe Cemetery. The inscription on Dr. Norton's grave in Shockoe Cemetery. The inscription reads: "SACRED to the memory of Daniel Norborne Norton M.D. Son of John Hatley Norton of England and his wife Catherine Bush of Wincester, Virginia born November 1794. Intermarried with Elizabeth Jaquelin Call and afterwards with Lucy Marshall Fisher. Departed this life the 23rd day of January 1842." Cliff Ambers points out the wild grape seedling at Dr. Norton's grave in Shockoe Cemetery. Here is a staminate Vitis aestivalis vine we found along the James River in Richmond. According to the most likely explanation for the origin of the Norton grape variety, a vine very simliar to this was the pollen donor in the cross with the Bland grape that produced the Norton variety. Cliff Ambers hugs a very large aestivalis specimen we found growing along the James River in Richmond.