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Rocks and Railroads
Look Ahead
Riverside Drive is now on top what used to be a railroad bed. It serviced quarries you can find further to the west.
Look to the left in the grassy field between the park entrance and exit. You can still see…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IE2_browns-island-disaster_Richmond-VA.html
On March 13, 1863, an explosion destroyed much of the Confederate States Laboratory, a munitions facility on Brown's Island in the James River. 47 workers died, mostly girls under the age 17, who helped fill manpower needs and whose small hands we…
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This monument is dedicated to the memory of the more than 27 Patriots of the American Revolution and 400 veterans of the War of 1812 buried in this cemetery. Their loyalty, faith, courage and self sacrifice in servicing our country preserved the f…
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Shockoe Hill Cemetery (the first owned and maintained by the city of Richmond) opened in 1822. It was one of three cemeteries on Richmond's northern edge, including the Hebrew Cemetery and a free-black and slave burial ground. Shockoe Hill w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1IDY_union-pow-memorial_Richmond-VA.html
Nearby are buried at least 661 United States soldiers who died between July 1861 and June 1863 while prisoners of war in this city. Many died at Confederate General Hospital Number 1 adjacent to Shockoe Hill Cemetery which took in Union wounded fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HZM_memorial-terrace_Richmond-VA.html
1788
This site was a part of the Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts where the Virginia Convention of 1788 voted to approve the proposed U.S. Constitution on June 25th.
1806
Richmond Theatre opened in three-story brick building.
1811
Theat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HZB_first-african-baptist-church_Richmond-VA.html
Tracing its roots to 1780 as the First Baptist Church, the First African Baptist Church was bought and organized by freedmen and slaves in 1841. The present building was erected on the same site in 1876. The establishment of First African Baptist …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HQU_appointed-to-serve_Richmond-VA.html
Founded by the Presbyterian Church U.S. in 1914, the Assembly's Training School was the church's first coeducational "lay workers" school. Through the school, women barred from seminary received a theological education. Among the earliest faculty …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GUV_maggie-lena-walker_Richmond-VA.html
Maggie Lena Walker was the first woman and the first African-American woman to found and be president of a chartered bank in the United States. She was born into poverty on July 15, 1864 in Richmond, Virginia to parents who worked in the mansion o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GTU_virginia-union-university_Richmond-VA.html
The result of the merging on this site in 1899 of two institutions founded by the American Baptist Home Mission Society as follows:
1865 - Richmond Theological School for Freemen
1865 - Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C.
1932 - Hartshorn Memoria…