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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U2D_curvy-course-historical_Richmond-VA.html
(panel 1) Curvy Course Navigating the curving meanders of the river above Jamestown was tedious for boaters in John Smith's day. Too difficult to sail, men had to row through long stretches known as the oxbows. Yet the colonists made numerous …
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Fifth President James Monroe was born April 28, 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. While attending the College of William and Mary he joined in the struggle for independence from Great Britain. James Monroe served with distinction during th…
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On 22 Feb. 1960, 34 Virginia Union University students, 11 women and 23 men, refused to leave the segregated dining facilities here at Thalhimers department store and were arrested. Charged with trespassing, they were later convicted and fined. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S5Q_a-legacy-on-leigh-street_Richmond-VA.html
This Italianate mansion was once the bustling home of pioneering African American entrepreneur Maggie Lena Walker (1864- 1934). Walker lived here for the final thirty years of her life and greatly expanded the home to accommodate four generations …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RQJ_leigh-street-armory_Richmond-VA.html
In 1895, the city of Richmond constructed the Leigh Street or First Battalion Virginia Volunteers Armory, the nation's only 19th-century armory built for an African American militia. Several decades of noteworthy performance by Virginia's black mi…
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/HM1PZZ_captain-thomas-harris_Richmond-VA.html
Captain Thomas Harris came to the Jamestown Colony from England in May 1611 on the ship Prosperous with Sir Thomas Dale. In 1635, a patent was issued to Harris for 750 acres. In 1636 this property was called Longfield and later was known as Curles…
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