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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C4T_chesapeake-ohio-railway_Richmond-VA.html
Origins in the James River & Kanawha Canal Co. (1785) and the Louisa Railroad (1836). Headquarted in Richmond. Profits came from hauling WVA coal to Newport News shipyards. Merged with B&O in 1972 to form Chessie System. Chessie System merged with…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19WR_2307-e-broad-street_Richmond-VA.html
Part of Carrington Row, this row house was built in 1818 by the sons of Ann Adams Carrington. The architecture was inspired by the work of Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Robert Mills. The home was designed by builder-architect Otis Mason. It is the ol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19PO_historic-shockoe-valley_Richmond-VA.html
Richmond is one of the most historic cities in the nation. Captain John Smith was among the first Europeans to visit in 1607, and William Byrd II, the founder of Richmond laid out the original street pattern.
This photograph, taken in 1865 show…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17KA_the-oldest-commercial-building-in-richmond_Richmond-VA.html
Built in 1817, this structure is the oldest commercial building in Richmond. As this building was being built, James Madison, a Virginian, was serving as the 4th President of the United States.
During the Civil War, the Union Army passed by thi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15ZP_coffer-dams_Richmond-VA.html
The large wood and steel rectangles before you are the walls of temporary dams.
They are designed to be placed by crane at either end of the stone locks to your right. —- This allows the locks to be closed off, the water pumped out, and r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15ZO_city-locks-river-gauge_Richmond-VA.html
The building before you holds equipment that measures the level of the James River leaving Richmond
How it works:The gauge is a tube of air with a standard amount of pressure inside. How much the river water rises up the tube determines how muc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15ZN_oakwood-cemetery_Richmond-VA.html
Almost every Confederate soldier who died in a Richmond hospital during the war was buried in one of three local cemeteries: Hollywood, Oakwood, or Shockoe Hill. Although Hollywood Cemetery is the best known because of the many prominent men burie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1144_church-hill-tunnel_Richmond-VA.html
About 200 feet east is the western portal of the Church Hill Tunnel. On 11 Dec. 1873, Chesapeake and Ohio locomotive number 2 passed through the tunnel, marking the completion of one of the longest tunnels in the United States. The tunnel was bein…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10IH_nine-mile-road_Richmond-VA.html
First known as New Bridge Road, the name "Nine Mile" comes from the distance between Richmond and Seven Pines ending at Williamsburg Road. In 1888, Richmond City and Seven Pines Railway Company established a route along the road. This line provide…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10HE_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…