Guadalajara and Richmond have some similarities between them: Guadalajara was not always the main Capitol city of Jalisco (state where Guadalajara is located), both state buildings where destroyed and both where reconstructed and both are close to the national heroes thru their history. In 1750 a earthquake strikes on Guadalajara destroying the Capitol building made from clay bricks, an ancient Mexican way to construct houses. This clay bricks called "adobes". It was reconstructed with canter brick so it can resist further disasters. Ever since, the building remains almost the same. Another aspect that can be compare between the two capitals, is that both had something to do with our founding fathers. Richmond has something to do with Jefferson, one of whom made the independence declaratory, and Guadalajara has something to do with Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a catholic reverend that urged the people to stand against the Spanish colonial government. Both were moved by burgesses interest also. But unlike Jefferson, Miguel Hidalgo was captured and sentence to death, and his head was hang on a public place to remind the emergent Mexican people that Spanish crown was not that easy to defeat. Guadalajara had their first public running water on a fount in front the Capitol building, now there is a public kiosk but I post an old picture of it. In Guadalajara also was proclaimed the end of slavery by Miguel Hidalgo. After the independence, when the revolution came (1910's ) and Francisco Villa arrived to Guadalajara with his army, one of their colonels shoot at the clock in the front of the building. This was a common way to say two things: that they've arrived and the time when they did it. The shoot never stops the machinery inside the clock, but still remains the hole that proves the incident. Later on (1940's) one governor took away the statues that we're beside the main balcony in the building. They were made out of marble. Both were given to other governors from neighbors states. One of them is lost, the other remains on Colima state.