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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21MU_richmond-hill_Richmond-VA.html
Richmond Hill was an early name for Church Hill.
Richard Adams, one of the most prominent men in
Richmond, built a house on this site by the 1790s,
and a second house, still standing, was constructed
here about 1810. William Taylor remodeled t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WOI_the-lewis-doughty-house-historical_Richmond-VA.html
Lewis Doughty, a ship's carpenter, built this house in 1860. It was used as a temporary hospital during the seven days battle.
June 26-July 3, 1862
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRC_here-stood-the-trigg-shipyard_Richmond-VA.html
The concrete walls in front of you are all that is left of the once-bustling Trigg Shipyard. The yard employed 2,000 men and was comprised of 16 large industrial buildings on a 25-acre site with 20 acres in water, dock, and boat basin. In 1898, Ri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRB_the-tidal-james_Richmond-VA.html
The view before you is the westernmost section of the tidal portion of the James River. The James stretches from headwaters in the Appalachian Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay, and is one of the United Sttaes' six longest rivers whose watershed lie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QRA_water-quality-in-the-james_Richmond-VA.html
For much of the 20th century, the James River became extremely contaminated with acids used in metal production, bases and dyes used in paper manufacturing, and untreated sanitary wastewater. As was common practice in most cities, the James River …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QBU_welcome-to-chapel-island_Richmond-VA.html
The island on which you are standing has a rich and varied history. The first record of what is now Chapel Island - a peninsula of land running from 14th Street to Pear Street - may well have been the first record of Richmond. When Captains John S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G6W_george-wythe_Richmond-VA.html
This tablet is dedicated
to mark the site where lie
the mortal remains of
George Wythe
Born 1726 - Died 1806
Jurist and Statesman
Teacher of Randolph
Jefferson and Marshall
First Professor of Law
in the United States
First Virginia signer of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G63_the-burying-ground-for-colored-paupers_Richmond-VA.html
This colored paupers? cemetery was originally founded in 1895 by William Forrester as a part of Greenwood Memorial Cemetery in Henrico County. Many of the colored cemeteries in the city were overgrown due to lack of appropriate care, and Mr. Forre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EJE_heron-rookery_Richmond-VA.html
In the trees, on the island in front of you, are the nests of a colony of Great Blue Herons. They look like loose bundles of sticks a yard across and are often near the ends of tree branches.
Herons usually gather in isolated areas away from pe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DVU_richmonds-civil-war-hospitals_Richmond-VA.html
During the Civil War, overwhelming numbers of sick and wounded soldiers came to Richmond seeking treatment at one of the city's dozens of Confederate medical facilities, the best known of which was Chimborazo Hospital, established on this site in …