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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYB_rocketts-landing-and-wharf-confederate-navy-yard-powhatans-birthplace_Richmond-VA.html
(bottom panel)Rocketts Landing and Wharf Rocketts is the river frontage and community named for Robert Rockett, who operated a ferry across the James River beginning in the 1730s. Over the years, tenant laborers and merchants filled the floodpl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVY3_great-ship-lock_Richmond-VA.html
The first Great Ship Lock was built in 1816. It connected the navigable part of the James River with the Richmond city dock, which extended for 10 blocks to the west. The lock raised sailing ships and steamboats approximately 13 feet above the tid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVXK_libby-prison_Richmond-VA.html
Libby Prison, one of the most notorious prisons of the Civil War, housed mostly Union officers. It was located at the southeast corner of 20th and Cary streets (the doorway in the floodwall is at 20th, and the wall runs through the site of the bui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVXH_richmond-dock-chapel-island_Richmond-VA.html
Richmond Dock In 1816, the Virginia legislature chartered the Richmond Dock Company. It operated independently of the James River and Kanawha Canal until 1854, when the Tidewater Connection was constructed. The Tidewater Connection, a series of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVXF_tobacco-row_Richmond-VA.html
The area in Richmond known as Tobacco Row has been the site of tobacco warehouses and manufacturing since long before the Civil War. Beginning in the 1600s, after Virginia tobacco became popular in Europe, planters and shippers maintained faciliti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVWC_28th-st-draw-bridge-great-shiplock-canal_Richmond-VA.html
28th St Draw Bridge The lift bridge before you was built by the Norfolk and Southern Railroad in 1929 to serve the paper mills along the Pamunkey River at West Point. A moveable bridge was always necessary to allow ships from the James River…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOTF_franklin-street-burying-grounds_Richmond-VA.html
Reconsecrationof theFranklin StreetBurying Grounds The first JewishCemetery in VirginiaFounded 1791 Commemoratingthe 300th anniversaryof the first permanentJewish settlementin the United States This memorial erected byCongregation Beth Ah…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO88_cedar-hill_Richmond-VA.html
Cedar Hill was constructed ca. 1820 and originally stood off Creighton Road near the Hanover County line. During the Civil War, units of Kershaw's Division of the Army of the Confederate States set up camp at Cedar Hill and built fortifications on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO0G_libby-prison_Richmond-VA.html
Near this site, from about 1845 until 1889, stood the building that housed Richmond's famous Libby Prison. Originally built as a warehouse by wealthy Richmond businessman John Enders, Sr., a portion of the structure was leased prior to the Civil W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN9C_chimborazo-hospital_Richmond-VA.html
On this 40-acre plateau the Confederates built Chimborazo Hospital, one of the largest and best-known Civil War military hospitals: 78,000 sick and wounded Confederate soldiers passed through the hospital from 1861-1865. Chimborazo's neat rows of …
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