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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Richmond, Virginia
Adjacent to Richmond, Virginia
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| | Wilfred Cutshaw graduated from the Virginia
Military Institute in 1858 and served as a
lieutenant colonel of artillery in the Confederate
army. As Richmond’s city engineer (1873–1907),
he instituted an innovative system of civic
planning . . . — — Map (db m108007) HM |
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The wall of granite ahead is the remnant of a small quarry. Granite from this site may have been used in the construction of the canal locks or canal arch in this park.
Quarrying was a major industry in Richmond during . . . — — Map (db m133708) HM |
| | The large granite building is what remains of the second oldest water pumping station in Richmond.
It was built in 1882 and provided drinking water for the City of Richmond for over forty years. Nine pumps on the first floor drew . . . — — Map (db m133703) HM |
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The granite basin at your feet is a canal lock, a way to link high bodies of water to low ones. There are two locks in this park. They were built around 1830 by black slaves, Irish immigrants and Italian stone masons and are part of the . . . — — Map (db m133705) HM |
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This sturdy granite Pump House looks like a church on the outside and a castle on the inside. It was designed by City Engineer and Civil War Veteran Colonel W. Cutshaw. The long vertical lines and sharply arched "lancet" windows show that . . . — — Map (db m133706) HM |
| | A maze of rocks, rapids, channels and islands stretches along the James River between the 14th Street Bridge (3 miles to your left) and the Edward Wiley Memorial Bridge (4 miles to your right).
It is called the Fall Line . . . — — Map (db m133702) HM |
| | From this point you can see the remains of three different canals. Two of these canals were for transportation. One was for drinking water.
Look to your right: The flat, slow channel is the water supply for the Byrd Park Pump . . . — — Map (db m133707) HM |
| | David C. Kennedy was among the first residents of this Queen Anne home, built in 1905. Kennedy was the manager at hardware company Baldwin and Brown before becoming President of hardware company Kennedy Brothers and Kelham Inc. The business was . . . — — Map (db m149670) HM |
| | This brick Queen Anne double house was built in 1905. It features a bow projection topped by a domical turret. The well-preserved colored rosettes in the slate roof and the octagonal turret are also duplicated at #208. The first resident was Frank . . . — — Map (db m149669) HM |
| | Construction began on the western end of this building in 1822. It front facade has since been altered due to lowering of the street level. This Federal style building has a distinctive history. After it was built by a carpenter, john Quarles, his . . . — — Map (db m149673) HM |
| | This Italianate style house was constructed in 1892 and Stephen Gaylord, manager of Pioneer Beef and Provisions Company, was its first occupant. Prominent features of this home include an eloquent wooden porch, segmental arched windows, and . . . — — Map (db m149674) HM |
| | Commissioned in 1861, this Greek Revival was not completed until after the Civil War. Turpin owned with William Yarbrough the Turpin and Yarbrough Tobacco Co. located at 25th & Franklin which also served as the Second Alabama Hospital during the . . . — — Map (db m149676) HM |
| | Built in 1861 for William Yarbrough, one of Richmond's leading tobacconists, whose factory still stands at the SW corner of 25th and Franklin Streets. A classic example of the Late Greek Revival style with Italianate touches, it is credited to . . . — — Map (db m149677) HM |
| | This three-bay brick Italianate townhouse was built no later than 1877 by a speculative builder It features a one-story porch with simple posts. The diminutive front yard features an iron fence with a welcoming gate. Watermen, Charles T., Daniel S. . . . — — Map (db m149656) HM |
| | This Italianate two-story, pressed brick rowhouse was constructed along with the adjacent rowhouses (2510 and 2512 E. Franklin St.) prior to 1877 and retains its original bracketed eaves and pierced paneled cornice. The first recorded residents of . . . — — Map (db m149635) HM |
| | Built in 1848 by Frederick and William Anderson, part of a row of four town houses. Owned by the family Miss Ellen Wilkins Tompkins, 1877 - 1963. Demolished in 1969 by the City of Richmond for library expansion. Re-erected in 1969 - 1971. — — Map (db m149660) HM |
| | This house reflects the architectural elements of the turn of the twentieth century with an Italianate cornice and simple porch with turned posts in a classical balustrade. It was constructed as one of three houses, 2706-2708-2610. Virginia V. . . . — — Map (db m149664) HM |
| | This rowhouse was constructed at the turn of the twentieth century and features an Italianate cornice and simple porch with turned posts in a classical balustrade. Edward C. Saunders occupied the house from 1902-1914. He was a traveling salesman for . . . — — Map (db m149663) HM |
| | This classic brick three-bay townhouse was built c. 1886. The Italianate design features a delicate Eastlake porch. The city directory in 1886 lists Cyrus G. Bossieux of B. C. Bristow & Bro. as the first occupant. In 1889, Rev. T. P. Bell with the . . . — — Map (db m149671) HM |
| | This three-bay brick house was the home of Dr. Frederick H. Langstedt, a physician. It was built no later than 1871. The original house features a restrained Italianate cornice, a delicate iron porch, stone window lintels and unusual, oversized . . . — — Map (db m149668) HM |
| | This three-bay frame house was built c. 1881. The original design has been retrimmed with Georgian Revival details. The rear windows of the house have outstanding views of the river and surrounding neighborhoods. Originally, the house address was . . . — — Map (db m149667) HM |
| | This quintessential Victorian style house features a bracketed Italianate porch and intricate oak-leaf pattern ironwork fence. It's earliest resident was W. C. Camp, a box manufacturer. Dr. Reverend James M. Frost, pastor of Leigh Street Baptist . . . — — Map (db m149665) HM |
| | This Queen Anne building is an excellent example of preserved commercial architecture with its rusticated cast block walls, plate glass windows, mansard roof, and prominent storefront. It is part of a series of historically African-American owned . . . — — Map (db m133686) HM |
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Burton-Farrar House
1818
2308 East Broad Street
is a contributing building to the
St. John's Church Historic District
Designated a
Virginia Historic Landmark
by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources
and placed on the . . . — — Map (db m149672) HM |
| | This house was built by Fredrick Elliott in 1874. It incorporates a portion of an earlier ante-bellum structure. — — Map (db m133689) HM |
| | Built by Luther Libby whose warehouse during Civil War became the Libby Prison. Original Greek revival house has a classical entrance porch. A stepped, gable roof was replaced by a mansard roof before 1900. Other residents were Lemuel Powers . . . — — Map (db m149666) HM |
| | This Greek Revival home was first purchased by James B. Royster, brother of Elmira Shelton. Royster was a tobacco manufacturer, druggist, commission merchant, and city auditor of Richmond. Jane C. Royster, wife and noted socialite, met Gen. . . . — — Map (db m149659) HM |
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The Ligon House
Built 1850
is registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark
And placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
— — Map (db m149661) HM |
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The
Pulliam House
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1856
— — Map (db m149662) HM |
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The John Adams Double House, built in 1809,
was acquired for Historic Richmond Foundation with contributions in memory of
Wyndham Bolling Blanton, M. D.
physician and historian
a founder and first president of
Historic . . . — — Map (db m133771) HM |
| | The red line above marks the highest known flood level at this location.
On June 20, 1972, Hurricane Agnes brought torrential rainfall to the Richmond region, with the flood crest occurring on June 23. At this spot, flood levels reached a . . . — — Map (db m133685) HM |
| | After the First Battle of Manassas, Richmond appropriated this approximately 7.5 - acre lot on 12 Aug. 1861 for burial of Confederate war dead. These Soldiers from every Southern state either died in Richmond's military hospitals, such as . . . — — Map (db m15426) HM |
| | Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8, carrying 74 U.S. Army recruits to Columbia, SC, crashed southeast of Richmond on 8 Nov. 1961. All of the recruits and three of the five crew members perished. At the time, the crash was the worst in Virginia history . . . — — Map (db m149634) HM |
| | Overshot waterwheels generated mechanical energy that operated all of Tredegar's furnaces and machinery from the time of the Iron Work's founding in 1837 until just after the American Civil War.
Turbines replaced Tredegar's waterwheel by the . . . — — Map (db m101432) HM |
| | The Civil War framed the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Within weeks of his election in 1860 as the sixteenth American president, South Carolina seceded from the Union. The primary Confederate army surrendered on April 9, 1865, only days before . . . — — Map (db m4804) HM |
| | This 6.4-inch Brooke rifled cannon became a great source of pride for the Confederacy. Named for its inventor, John Mercer Brooke, this type of gun was renowned for its superior range, accuracy, and reliability compared to to its smoothbore . . . — — Map (db m101430) HM |
| | This memorial
erected by the Commonwealth
of Virginia commemorates the
service and sacrifice of all
Virginians during
World War II··1941-45
and Korea···1950-53
Vietnam·····1955-75
Persian Gulf·1991
Above this, . . . — — Map (db m5073) WM |
| | Among her many accomplishments, this African-American business woman, social activist and formidable community leader became the first woman bank president in America when she founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond in 1903. — — Map (db m119518) HM |
| | 1864 — Born July 15 to Elizabeth Draper and later works with her mother as a laundress to make ends meet
1883 — Graduates from Richmond Colored Normal School, teaches for three years before marrying Armstead Walker, Jr.
1899 . . . — — Map (db m108518) HM |
| | Newton Hopper Ancarrow (1920-1991):
Mr. Ancarrow was born in Richmond and earned a chemistry and physics degree from the University of Richmond. After serving in World War II, he worked for American Tobacco as a chemist, and then Experiment, Inc. . . . — — Map (db m133682) HM |
| | Regarded as a "living fossil," the Atlantic Sturgeon's appearance has changed little since the age of the dinosaurs. Capable of growing up to 14 feet in length, weighing 800 pounds, and living up to 60 years, they spend their adult years in the . . . — — Map (db m133770) HM |
| | This tablet is dedicated
to the memory of
Colonel Thomas Stegge, Jr.
proprietor of
the Falls Plantation, 1659-70
first land-patentee permanently
to reside at the falls of James River;
uncle and benefactor of William
Byrd I., . . . — — Map (db m30357) HM |
| | In October of 1841, Madison Washington and over 100 other men were sold from Richmond’s slave jails and ordered for export to New Orleans. Although the infamous Robert Lumpkin did not own his jail until 1844, he was one of several shippers in . . . — — Map (db m41828) HM |
| | Spanning nearly 350 years, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade displaced over 12 million Africans from their native lands to foreign soils. European traders eager to fill the labor vacuum in the New World participated in the capture and sale of African . . . — — Map (db m41821) HM |
| | Dorothy I. Height, civil rights leader, was born in Richmond and lived in this neighborhood until 1916. For more than 50 years she worked for racial justice and gender equality. Serving on the national staff of the Young Women's Christian . . . — — Map (db m131549) HM |
| | The 10th National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (1947-1956), was born in Richmond. Virginia and lived on Old Dominion St. She was the longest serving National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. During her tenure as . . . — — Map (db m143047) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m31749) HM |
| | The still water in front of you once flowed freely to the right. It once spun the water wheels and turbines of several paper companies (like the one to your left), ...grist mills (where the grain elevator is now to your right) ...and an . . . — — Map (db m30068) HM |
| | (front)
Here on the site of the old market
square the Manchester Elliott Grays,
the first volunteer company in this
section, was mustered into service
May 9, 1861, commanded by Louis
Francis Bossieux. After attending
services at . . . — — Map (db m30071) HM |
| | On September 19, 1795, Manchester Lodge No. 14, A.F.&A. M., laid the cornerstone of its first temple on this site. The ceremony was conducted by the worshipful master Archibald Campbell, grand master John Marshall, and deputy grand master Robert . . . — — Map (db m19683) HM |
| | In the late 1700s, newly captured Africans walked this route from the docks to the slave jails near 15th and Franklin Streets. Chained at the neck and legs, they were marched at night to avoid offending citizens with their oozing sores, filth and . . . — — Map (db m30065) HM |
| | “But the circumstance which struck us most forcibly was how it was possible for such a number of human beings to exist, packed up and wedged together as tight as they could cram, in low cells three feet high, the greater part of which, except . . . — — Map (db m41871) HM |
| | The area around you was the site of events that shaped the history and culture of Richmond.
The stone docks (earlier made of wood) were the principal port for the collection and re-export of Virginia slaves. This awful trade was augmented by 5 . . . — — Map (db m30066) HM |
| | “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” - Samuel Johnson, 1775
“We have the wolf by the ear and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is on one scale and . . . — — Map (db m41827) HM |
| | “A frank and honest effort to face up to the darkest side of our past, to understand the ways in which social evils evolve, should in no way lead to cynicism and despair, or to a repudiation of our heritage. The development of maturity means a . . . — — Map (db m41870) HM |
| | On May 21, 1607, a week after establishing Jamestown, Christopher Newport led a small band of colonists, including John Smith, up the James River. They were carrying out orders from their sponsors, the Virginia Company of London, to discover "the . . . — — Map (db m133683) HM |
| | [Top plaque:]
The Fan Area Historic District
National Register of Historic Places
Contributing
Structure
Erected
1914
Richmond Virginia
[Bottom plaque:]
This property
has been placed on the
National . . . — — Map (db m133721) HM |
| |
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
10 N. Boulevard
1915
— — Map (db m133720) HM |
| |
The Fan Area Historic District
National Register of Historic Places
Contributing
structure
erected
1917
Richmond • Virginia — — Map (db m133773) HM |
| |
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
103 South Boulevard
1020
— — Map (db m133711) HM |
| |
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
115 South Boulevard
1913
— — Map (db m133714) HM |
| |
The Fan Area Historic District
National Register of Historic Places
Contributing
structure
erected
1913
Richmond • Virginia — — Map (db m133775) HM |
| |
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
201 South Boulevard
1920
— — Map (db m133715) HM |
| |
The Fan Area Historic District
National Register of Historic Places
Contributing
structure
erected
1913
Richmond • Virginia — — Map (db m133774) HM |
| |
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Alexander
1920
— — Map (db m133712) HM |
| | [Inscription on east face of monument:]Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. 1943 - 1993
World Champion, Author, Humanitarian,
Founder of Virginia Heroes, Incorporated,
Native of Richmond, Virginia.
This Monument was placed at Monument Avenue and . . . — — Map (db m22823) HM |
| | [Top plaque:]
This property
English Village
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
[Bottom plaque:]
English Village
has been . . . — — Map (db m133723) HM |
| |
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Fairfax
1920
— — Map (db m133722) HM |
| |
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Kenmore
1920
— — Map (db m133717) HM |
| |
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Park Lane
1920
— — Map (db m133701) HM |
| |
Rumors of War
Kehinde Wiley
2019
— — Map (db m152769) WM |
| |
Six North Boulevard
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
c. 1921
— — Map (db m133718) HM |
| |
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Southland
1920
— — Map (db m133713) HM |
| | Born 1824 Killed at Chancellorsville 1863 — — Map (db m19850) HM |
| |
The Boulevard Historic District
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m133700) HM |
| |
This property
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Wakefield
1920
— — Map (db m133710) HM |
| | John Miller, a free black cooper and minister, built this house about 1858. It is significant as a rare surviving antebellum house in Richmond constructed by and for a free African American family. More than two thousand free blacks lived in . . . — — Map (db m4498) HM |
| | The Henrico County town of Sydney, laid out
here in 1817, was slow to develop. Oregon Hill, a
working-class Richmond neighborhood just east
of Belvidere Street, expanded westward across
the county line to this area during the 1850s.
Many white . . . — — Map (db m108168) HM |
| | Erected 1933 – 1934 by
Richmond Bridge Corporation
John J. Wicker, Jr., President
R. Keith Compton, V. Pres Allen J. Saville, V. Pres.
Horace L. Smith, Jr., V. Pres. Wilmer L. O’Flaherty, Sec-Treas.
—— . . . — — Map (db m4736) HM |
| |
In honor of
the men and women
of
the City of Richmond, Virginia,
who gave their lives in
The World War
for the principles of
justice, freedom and democracy.
Erected by their comrades of the
five Richmond posts of the . . . — — Map (db m90097) WM |
| | William Byrd II of Westover, owner of the land around
the falls of the James River, wrote in his diary on
September 19, 1733:
…we laid the foundations of two large Citys. One at Shacco’s, to be called Richmond and the other at the point of . . . — — Map (db m16145) HM |
| | Born in Fauquier County, John Marshall was admitted to the bar there in 1780 following service in the Revolutionary army. In 1783 he married Mary Willis Ambler and lived the remainder of his life in Richmond where until 1797 he accepted President . . . — — Map (db m22610) HM |
| | . . . — — Map (db m16216) HM |
| | Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, defined under
Virginia’s 1924 Racial Integrity Act as an interracial
couple, married in June 1958 in Washington, D.C
and returned home to Caroline County. Arrested in
July for violating Virginia’s laws against . . . — — Map (db m108166) HM |
| | Because of Shockoe Slip’s convenience to both canal and rail transport, many different businesses contributed to its economic make-up. Some of the buildings in this block housed concerns that would be expected in the area, such as a cigar . . . — — Map (db m40665) HM |
| | This building, now the home of the popular Tobacco Company Restaurant, was originally built in 1866, just one year after the Evacuation Fire. Erected during the most difficult period Richmond has ever experienced, the structure was considered . . . — — Map (db m40664) HM |
| | This corner has long been dominated by restaurants and saloons which served the commercial area’s workers and clientele. Often commission merchants occupied the upstairs offices.
This handsomely detailed building erected on a site which extends . . . — — Map (db m40672) HM |
| | The keystone inscription bears the initials of the two owners of the Haxall-Crenshaw Mill, which once stood here.
The old 13th Street Bridge and the arch on the bank of the canal opposite this spot were built by Richard B. Haxall and Lewis D. . . . — — Map (db m23820) HM |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m67425) HM |
| |
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 . . . — — Map (db m47385) HM |
| | This pole is a reproduction of the poles used by Bateau polemen. The crew of a Bateau consisted of two polemen, who walked on boards running the length of the boat on either side and a steersman who used a sweep at the stern. To navigate upstream, . . . — — Map (db m23922) HM |
| | 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 of . . . — — Map (db m94571) HM |
| | Front of Monument: Born in Culpepper Co. November 9th 1825 Killed before Petersburg April 2nd 1865. Back of Monument : His remains were interred here June 24, 1891. — — Map (db m19813) HM |
| | Richmond mayor Dr. John Adams built a mansion here in 1802. It became the residence of Elizabeth Van Lew (1818-1900) whose father obtained it in 1836. During the Civil War, Elizabeth Van Lew led a Union espionage operation. African Americans, such . . . — — Map (db m15926) HM |
| | The Raceway and Earlier Uses of the Site
This raceway brought water from the James River and Kanawha Canal to power waterwheels, and later turbines, that drove machinery. During its earliest use, the raceway contained at least two overshot . . . — — Map (db m24411) HM |
| | African Americans and the waterfront
The Richmond waterfront is steeped in African American history. From the early days when Richmond was a colonial trading post, free, indentures, and enslaved African Americans lived and worked in the . . . — — Map (db m23856) HM |
| | In 1916, the Dixie Paper Company opened a paper mill in the building of the closed Brown’s Island electric plant. By 1919, the mill was taken over by Albemarle Paper Company, which had been operating a paper mill just upriver at Hollywood since . . . — — Map (db m24107) HM |
| | Alexander H. Stephens
Vice President of the
Confederate States of America
Lived in the house that stood here in 1861
This tablet is placed by the
Confederate Memorial Literary Society, A.D., 1912, — — Map (db m16272) HM |
| | Born into slavery in Hanover County in 1860, Alfred D. “A.D.” Price moved to Richmond in the late 1870s. Soon after coming to Richmond, he set up a blacksmith shop, which expanded into a livery stable and the funeral home that stands . . . — — Map (db m5601) HM |
| | A short distance south is Ampthill House, built by Henry Cary about 1730 on the south side of James River. It was the home of Colonel Archibald Cary, Revolutionary leader, and was removed to its present site by a member of the Cary family. — — Map (db m20529) HM |
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