Historical Markers in Richmond County, Virginia
1 North Boulevard
10 N. Boulevard
101 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard
103 South Boulevard
115 South Boulevard
1200 Block East Cary Street
1201 East Cary Street
1300-1304 East Cary Street
13th Street Bridge
17 Feet
19 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard
201 South Boulevard
205 North 23rd Street
208 North 28th
21 North Arthur Ashe Boulevard
210 N. 28th Street
2200 E. Broad St.
2204 E. Grace Street
2205 East Broad Street
2209 East Broad Street - Miles Turpin House
2215 E. Broad Street
2307 E. Broad Street
2510 E. Franklin Street
2514 E. Franklin Street
2610 East Franklin Street
2708 E. Franklin Street
2710 E. Franklin Street
2715 E. Broad Street
28th St Draw Bridge / Great Shiplock Canal
2916 Libby Terrace
3009 E. Broad Street
3013 Libby Terrace
3101 E. Broad St.
3107 E. Broad Street
3420 East Broad Street
5 North 29th Street
509 North Mulberry Street
600 N. 29th St.
605 N. 25th Street
A Bateau Pole
A Legacy on Leigh Street
A. P. Hill
Adams-Van Lew House
Adapting Power
African Americans and the Waterfront
Albemarle Paper
Alexander
Alexander H. Stephens House Site
Alfred D. "A.D." Price (ca. 1860-1921)
Ampthill
Ancarrow's Landing
Ann Carrington House
Anna Maria Lane
Appointed to Serve
Arnolds Picket Driven In
Arthur Ashe Monument
Atlantic Coastline Railroad Bridge
Atlantic Sturgeon
Auction Houses
Bacons Quarter
Barton Heights Cemeteries
Basin Race
Battle of Bloody Run
Bell Tavern
Belle Isle
Belle Isle
Belle Isle and Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works
Belle Isle Hydro Plant
Belle Isle Prison
Belle Isle Prison Camp Monument
Belle Isle Rolling Milling and Slitting Manufactory
Bill Bojangles Robinson
Birthplace of Cardiac Transplantation
Black Hawk (1767-1838)
Bloody Run
Bowers Brothers Coffee and Tea Building
Branch Public Baths
Breaking Stones with Feathers
British Invasion of Richmond, January 1781
Broad Street Station
Brown's Island Disaster
Browns Island
Burnt District
Burton-Farrar House
Byrd Park Pump House
Byrd Theatre
Canal Walk
Canal Walk / Historic Canals
Canal Walk / Historic Canals
Canal Walk / Historic Canals
Canal Walk / Historic Canals
Cannon over the Camp
Canons and Corpses
Central Lunatic Asylum
Charles Sidney Gilpin
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Childsavers' WRVA Building
Chimborazo Hospital
Chimborazo Hospital
Chimborazo Hospital
Christopher Newport Cross / Canal Walk
Christopher Newport Monument
Church Hill Tunnel
City Locks River Gauge
City of Richmond Bicentennial
Civil War POW Camp
Coburn Hall
Coffer Dams
Colonel Thomas Stegge, Jr.
Columbian Block
Commercial Block
Company Store
Confederate (Second) Alabama Hospital
Confederate General Hospital No. 12
Confederate Hospital
Confederate Laboratory
Confederate Memorial Chapel
Confederate Memorial Pyramid
Confederate Navy Yard
Confederate Ordnance Lab Explosion
Confederate Soldiers' Home
Consolidated Bank & Trust Company
Craig House
Creole Revolt
Crossing the Atlantic
Cupolas from the Virginia State Penitentiary
Cyrus Griffins Birthplace
Davenport Trading Company
Despair of Slavery
Dorothy Height
Downtown Richmond Millsites
Dr. Dorothy Irene Height
Early Industrial Patterns
Early Quakers in Richmond
Early Shockoe
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Edgar Allen Poe
Egyptian Building
Electric Trolley
Electricity for Streetcars
Elizabeth Van Lew
Elliott House
Ellison Hall
Engine Company No. 9 Fire Station
English Village
Enterprise and Iron
Evacuation Fire
Evacuation of Richmond
Evergreen Cemetery
Execution of Gabriel
Exterior Design
Fairfax
Falls of the James
First African Baptist Church
First Break Rapids
First Regiment of Virginia Infantry
First Southern African American Girl Scouts
First Trolley Car System in Richmond
Forest Hill Park
Founders Hall
Francis Asbury
Francis Lightfoot Lee's Menokin
Francis Turbine
Franklin Street Burying Grounds
Frederick William Sievers
Freedmen's Bureau / Freedman's Bank
Friends Asylum for Colored Orphans
Gallego Mill Flume
Gallego Mills
Gateway to the Civil War
Gen'l Joseph E. Johnston
George Washington Monument
George Washingtons Vision
George Wythe
George Wythe
Giles Beecher Jackson
Governor Edmund Randolph
Grace Evelyn Arents
Granite and History
Grant House / Sheltering Arms Hospital
Great Ship Lock
Great Ship Lock
Great Ship Lock
Great Turning Basin
Gun Emplacement
Hancock-Wirt-Caskie House
Harnessing the River
Harry Flood Byrd
Hartshorn Memorial College
Haxall Headgates
Haxall Millrace
Headgate
Headgate Cleaner
Hebrew Cemetery
Henderson Center
Here Rest More Than One Hundred
Here Stood the Trigg Shipyard
Heron Rookery
Hilary Baker House
Historic Belle Isle
Historic Belle Isle
Historic Estate
Historic Estate
Historic Shockoe Valley
Historic Tredegar
Hollywood Rapids
Hon. William Atkinson Jones
Horseshoe Shops
Hunter Holmes McGuire, M.D.
Huntley Hall
Hurricane Agnes
Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8
Inauguration of Davis
Industrial Recycling
Inside A Flour Mill
Intermediate Defenses
Intermediate Line of Confederate Defenses
Ironworks Oil House
Italians in Richmond
Jackson Ward
Jacob House
James & Sallie Dooley
James Monroe
James Monroe Monument
James River & Kanawha Canal
James River & Kanawha Canal
James River Bateaumen
Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis Highway
John Jasper
John Jasper
John Marshall Corps of Cadets
John Marshall House
John Miller House
John Mitchell, Jr., "Fighting Editor"
John Tyler
Joseph Reid Anderson
Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalome
Kanawha Canal
Kanawha Plaza
Kenmore
Leigh Street Armory
Libby House
Libby Prison
Libby Prison
Libby Prison CSA
Lockwood Double House, 1845
Loving v. Virginia
Low Rise Dorms
Lumpkin's Jail
Maggie Lena Walker
Maggie Lena Walker
Maggie Lena Walker (1864-1934)
Maggie Lena Walker Memorial
Maggie Walker
Major James Gibbon
Making Machines at Tredegar
Manchester & Free Bridges
Manchester Canal
Manchester Elliott Grays
Manchester Lodge No. 14
Martin E. Gray Hall
Mary Elizabeth Bowser
Mary-Cooke Branch Munford
Matthew Fontaine Maury
Maupin - Maury House
Maymont, Gilded Age Estate
Mayo's Bridge
Mechanics of Slavery
Medical College of Virginia
Memorial Bell Tower
Memorial Terrace
Menokin
Miller & Rhoads
Miller & Rhoads
Millers and Eggleston Hotels
Monroe Park
Monroe Park
Monumental Church
Mule-Fueled Waterway
Native American Fishing
Navy Hill
Neighborhoods at Tredegar
Norfolk and Southern Bridge
North Farnham Church
Northern Neck Industrial Academy
Oakwood Cemetery
Oakwood Cemetery Confederate Section
Odd Fellows Hall
Officer Vernon L. Jarrelle
Old City Hall
Old Dominion Iron & Steel Company
Old Negro Burial Ground
Old Westham Bridge
Oliver White Hill Sr.
Oregon Hill
Origins of Richmond
Outbuildings
Overshot Waterwheel
Park Lane
People-Technology-Commerce-Warfare
Pickford Hall
Pipeline Trail
Pony Pasture Rapids
Potterfield Bridge
Powers-Taylor Building
Powhatan Hill
Powhatan Stone
President Lincoln Visits Richmond
Presidents Mansion
Propeller shaft of the Iron-Clad Virginia
Pumps and Parties
Quality Row
Quarry Equipment
Quarry Pond
R&P Railroad Piers
Raceways
Rail Lines at Tredegar
Rappahannock Indians
Ratification of the Constitution
Reconciliation Statue
Residential Life at R. E. Lee Camp, No.1
Richmond 34
Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge
Richmond at the Falls
Richmond Bread Riot
Richmond County Courthouse
Richmond Defences
Richmond Defences
Richmond Defences
Richmond Defences
Richmond Dock / Chapel Island
Richmond Evacuation Fire
Richmond Hill
Richmond Local Flood Protection
Richmond Locomotive Works
Richmond Professional Institute
Richmond, Virginia Bicentennial
Richmond's Civil War Hospitals
Richmonds African Burial Ground
Richmonds First African American Police Officers
River & Canal
Robert E. Lee Bridge
Robinson House
Rocketts Landing
Rocketts Landing
Rocketts Landing and Wharf / Confederate Navy Yard / Powhatans Birthplace
Ross' Mill Race
Royster House
Rumors of War
Rutherfoords Mill
Sadie Heath Cabaniss
Saint Johns Church
Saint Johns Episcopal Church
Saint Joseph Catholic Church
Samuel Pleasants Parsons House
Samuel Preston Moore
Shockoe Hill Cemetery
Shockoe Hill Cemetery
Shockoe Slip
Site of J. E. B. Stuart's Death
Site of Richmond College
Six North Boulevard
Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
Slave Auction Site
Slavery Challenged
Southern Firepower
Southland
Spottswood W. Robinson III
St. Johns Church
St. Philip School of Nursing
St. Philip's Way
Stewart-Lee House
Strengthen the Arm of Liberty
The Bell Tower
The Boulevard Historic District
The Bulldozer Press
The Burying Ground For Colored Paupers
The Canal and the Civil War
The Carillon
The Center of Industry in 18th and 19th Century Richmond
The Cupola Furnace and Foundry
The Edward V. Valentine Sculpture Studio
The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
The Executive Mansion of Virginia
The Falls of the James
The First National Bank Building
The First Telephone Exchange South of the Potomac River
The Flour Trade
The General Assembly of Virginia
The Gun Foundry
The Home For Needy Confederate Women
The J.M. Carter House
The J.M. Carter House
The John Marshall House
The Lewis Doughty House
The Ligon House
The Navy Yard of the Confederate States
The Old State Capitol
The Oldest Commercial Building in Richmond
The Oldest House
The Power of Moving Water
The Pulliam House
The Remembrance Structure
The Richmond-Petersburg Railroad Bridge
The Robertson Hospital
The Terraces
The Tidal James
The Treasury Building of the Confederate States of America
The Tredegar Iron Works
The Triangle
The View That Named The City
The Virginia Convention of 1788
The "Richmond 34"
Theatre Fire of December 26, 1811
Thomas J. Jackson, General CSA
Three Days in April 1865
Three-Chopt Road
Tidewater Connection Locks
Tidewater Connection Locks
Tidewater Lock View
To Honor
Tobacco District
Tobacco Row
Toledo 1000-ton Press
Transitions
Tredegar in 1951
Tredegar in the Twentieth Century / Then and Now
Tredegar Iron Works
Tredegar Iron Works
Tredegar Iron Works
Tredegar Rolling Mills
Tredegar Spike Mill
Trinity Methodist Church
Triple Crossing
Union Army Enters Richmond
Union POW Memorial
Up-River Venture
Use of Arms
Valentine Museum
Veterans Memorial
Veterans Memorial
Virginia Civil Rights Memorial
Virginia Historical Society
Virginia House
Virginia State Penitentiary
Virginia Union University
Virginia Union University
Virginia Union University 150th Anniversary Memorial
Virginia War Memorial
Virginias Executive Mansion
Wakefield
Warsaw
Water Power
Water Quality in the James
Water Water Everywhere
WCTU of Richmond Fountain
Welcome to Chapel Island
Welcome to Historic St. Johns Church
Welcome to Richmonds Historic Riverfront
West of the Boulevard Historic District
Whats That?
White Hall
White House of the Confederacy
Wickham-Valentine House
Wilfred Emory Cutshaw
William Smith
Wilton
Wilton
Windsor
Worker Housing
World War II Memorial
Wyndham Bolling Blanton, M. D.
Zero Milestone
"For God And Country"
"Richmond"
"The Great Chief Justice"
I must save the women of Richmond!
About Richmond County
Richmond County Timeline
Richmond County, Virginia, has a rich and diverse history that spans several centuries. The area was originally inhabited by various indigenous tribes, including the Powhatan Confederacy. English settlers arrived in the early 17th century, establishing Virginia as one of the original thirteen colonies. In 1692, Richmond County was formally established and named after Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond, who was a friend of Governor Edmund Andros.
During the colonial period, Richmond County played a significant role in the tobacco economy that fueled Virginia's growth. Large plantations emerged, with enslaved Africans being brought to the area to work the labor-intensive crops. The county's location along the Rappahannock River also made it an important shipping and trading hub, connecting the region to international markets.
As the American Revolution unfolded, Richmond County residents were divided in their loyalties. Some supported the Patriot cause and joined the Continental Army, while others remained loyal to the British Crown. The county saw several skirmishes and military actions during the war, including the Battle of Totopotomoy Creek in 1781.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Richmond County experienced significant changes. The decline of the tobacco economy and the gradual abolition of slavery led to a shift towards other agricultural products. Manufacturing and industry also began to play a role in the county's economy. The Civil War and Reconstruction era brought further challenges, and Richmond County, like much of the South, experienced economic hardships and social upheaval. Despite these challenges, the resilient community of Richmond County continued to evolve and adapt, shaping the vibrant and diverse region that exists today.
During the colonial period, Richmond County played a significant role in the tobacco economy that fueled Virginia's growth. Large plantations emerged, with enslaved Africans being brought to the area to work the labor-intensive crops. The county's location along the Rappahannock River also made it an important shipping and trading hub, connecting the region to international markets.
As the American Revolution unfolded, Richmond County residents were divided in their loyalties. Some supported the Patriot cause and joined the Continental Army, while others remained loyal to the British Crown. The county saw several skirmishes and military actions during the war, including the Battle of Totopotomoy Creek in 1781.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Richmond County experienced significant changes. The decline of the tobacco economy and the gradual abolition of slavery led to a shift towards other agricultural products. Manufacturing and industry also began to play a role in the county's economy. The Civil War and Reconstruction era brought further challenges, and Richmond County, like much of the South, experienced economic hardships and social upheaval. Despite these challenges, the resilient community of Richmond County continued to evolve and adapt, shaping the vibrant and diverse region that exists today.
Richmond County Timeline
This timeline provides a condensed summary of the historical journey of Richmond County, Virginia.
- 1608 - Captain John Smith explores the area and encounters Native American tribes.
- 1682 - Richmond County is established as part of the new English colony of Virginia.
- 1692 - The county seat is established in what is now Warsaw.
- 1705 - The colonial government designates Richmond County as one of the original eight shires in Virginia.
- 1742 - Stratford Hall, the birthplace of Robert E. Lee, is completed in Westmoreland County, which was a part of Richmond County at the time.
- 1763 - Richmond County is divided, with a section becoming a separate county called Westmoreland.
- 1830 - The Richmond County Courthouse, now a historic landmark, is built in Warsaw.
- 1861-1865 - Richmond County, like much of Virginia, is deeply impacted by the American Civil War as it serves as a major battleground.
- 1875 - The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway begins passenger and freight service in Richmond County.
- 1929 - The Robert O. Norris Bridge is completed, connecting Richmond County to neighboring Lancaster County.
- 1988 - Stratford Hall is designated a National Historic Landmark.