Richmond County, Virginia

200 Block West Franklin Street Historic District (Boundary Increase) 2900 Block Grove Avenue Historic District Agecroft Almshouse, The (Additional Documentation) Almshouse, The (Boundary Increase) American Tobacco Company, South Richmond Complex Historic District Armitage Manufacturing Company Atlantic Motor Company (127-6163) Bacon, Nathaniel, School Baker Public School Barret House Barton Heights Cemeteries Battery Court Historic District Beers, William, House Belgian Building Bell Tower Belle Isle Blackwell Historic District Blair Tobacco Storage Warehouse Complex Historic District Block 0-100 East Franklin Street Historic District Blues Armory Boulevard Historic District Branch Building Branch House Broad Street Commercial Historic District Broad Street Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase II) Broad Street Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase) Broad Street Station Brookland Park Historic District Bryan, Joseph, Park Byrd Park Court Historic District Byrd Theatre Byrd, William, Hotel Byrd, William, Park Cabell, Henry Coalter, House Cannon, Henry Mansfield, Memorial Chapel Carillon Neighborhood Historic District Carver Industrial Historic District Carver Residential Historic District Carver Residential Historic District (Boundary Increase) Cary Street Park and Shop Center Cary, John B., School Cathedral of the Sacred Heart Centenary Church Central National Bank Chamberlayne Gardens Chestnut Hill-Plateau Historic District Church Hill North Historic District Church Hill North Historic District (Boundary Increase) Church of the Sacred Heart City Hall Coliseum, The,-Duplex Envelope Company Building Columbia Commonwealth Club Historic District Confederate Memorial Chapel Crenshaw House Crozet House Davis, Decatur O., House Deep Run Hunt Club Rosedale Lodge Department of Public Utilities Howard (Overbrook) Road Facility Donnan-Asher Iron-Front Building Egyptian Building English Village Fairmont Historic District Fairmount School Fan Area Historic District Fan Area Historic District (Boundary Increase) Farnham Church Fifth and Main Downtown Historic District Fifth and Main Downtown Historic District (Boundary Increase) First African Baptist Church First Baptist Church First Battalion Virginia Volunteers Armory First National Bank Building Forest Hill Historic District Forest Hill Park Fourth Baptist Church Fraternal Order of Eagles Building Fulton, Robert, School General Outdoor Advertising Company Richmond Branch Ginter Park Historic District Ginter Park Terrace Historic District Glasgow, Ellen, House Gordon-Baughan-Warren House Governor's Mansion Grace Hospital Grace Street Commercial Historic District Grace Street Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase) Grant, William H., House Grays, Elliott, Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway Green's Farm (Huntley) Grove Mount Hancock-Wirt-Caskie House Hasker and Marcuse Factory Haxall, Bolling, House Hebrew Cemetery Hermitage Road Historic District Hermitage Road Warehouse Historic District Higgins Doctors Office Building Highland Park Plaza Historic District Highland Park Public School Holly Lawn Holly Springs Apartments Hollywood Cemetery Home For Confederate Women Hunt-Sitterding House Jackson Ward Historic District Jackson Ward Historic District (Boundary Increase) Jackson Ward Historic District (Boundary Increase) Jefferson Hotel Jerman House John Rolfe Apartments Kent Road Village Kent-Valentine House Kenwyn Laburnum Park Historic District Laurel Meadow Lee Medical Building Lee, Robert E., Monument Leigh Street Baptist Church Leigh, Benjamin Watkins, House Linden Farm Linden Row Loews Theatre Main Street Banking Historic District Main Street Banking Historic District (Boundary Increase) Main Street Station and Trainshed Manchester Courthouse Manchester Industrial Historic District Manchester Industrial Historic District (Boundary Increase) Manchester Industrial Historic District (Boundary Increase) Manchester Residential and Commercial Historic District Manchester Residential and Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase) Manchester Trucking and Commercial Historic District Marshall, John, House Mason's Hall Masonic Temple Maury Street Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway Maymont Menokin Milburne Model Tobacco Factory Monroe Park Historic District Monroe Ward Monroe, James, Tomb Monument Avenue Historic District Monument Avenue Historic District (Boundary Increase) Monumental Church Moore's Auto Body and Paint Shop Morson's Row Mount Airy National Theater New Pump-House Ninth Street Office Building North Court North Thompson Street Historic District Oakwood-Chimborazo Historic District Old Stone House Oliver Chilled Plow Works Branch House Oregon Hill Historic District Pace-King House Philip Morris Blended Leaf Complex Historic District Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital Planters National Bank Putney Houses Randolph School Reveille Rice House Richmond Academy of Medicine Richmond and Chesapeake Bay Railway Car Barn Richmond County Courthouse Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works Robinson House Rockfalls Ryland Hall Sabine Hall Scott House (Additional Documentation) Scott's Addition Historic District Second Presbyterian Church Shockoe Hill Cemetery Shockoe Slip Historic District Shockoe Slip Historic District (Boundary Increase II) Shockoe Slip Historic District (Boundary Increase III) Shockoe Slip Historic District (Boundary Increase) Shockoe Valley and Tobacco Row Historic District Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church Southern Biscuit Company Southern Stove Works Southern Stove Works, Manchester Springfield School Springhill Historic District St. Alban's Hall St. Andrew's Church St. Catherine's School St. Christopher's School St. John's Church Historic District St. John's Church Historic District (Boundary Increase) St. John's Episcopal Church St. Luke Building St. Paul's Church St. Peter's Church St. Sophia Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor Steamer Company Number 5 Stearns Iron-Front Building Stewart-Lee House Stonewall Jackson School Taylor Farm Taylor-Mayo House Third Street Bethel A.M.E. Church (Additional Documentation) Thomas Jefferson High School Three Chopt Road Historic District Todd, E.M., Company Tower Building Town of Barton Heights Historic District Tredegar Iron Works Trinity Methodist Church Tuckahoe Apartments Two Hundred Block West Franklin Street Historic District U.S. Post Office and Customhouse Union Hill Historic District Union Seminary United Daughters of the Confederacy Memorial Building Valentine Museum Virginia Can Company-S.H. Heironimus Warehouse Virginia Commission for the Blind Virginia Department of Highways Building Virginia House Virginia Mutual Building Virginia State Capitol Virginia State Library Virginia State Library-Oliver Hill Building Virginia Union University Virginia War Memorial Carillon Virginia Washington Monument Virginia, The Walker, Maggie L., High School Walker, Maggie Lena, House, National Historic Site Washington, George, Building Weisiger-Carroll House West Broad Street Commercial Historic District West Broad Street Industrial and Commercial Historic District West Franklin Street Historic District West Franklin Street Historic District (Boundary Increase) West of Boulevard Historic District Westbourne White House of the Confederacy Whitworth, John, House Williams, Charlotte, Memorial Hospital Wilton Winston, Joseph P., House Woodford Woodland Heights Historic District Woodward House Young Women's Christian Association

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 Arnold’s Picket Driven In Arthur Ashe Monument Atlantic Coastline Railroad Bridge Atlantic Sturgeon Auction Houses Bacon’s 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 Brown’s 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 Griffin’s 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 Washington’s 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 Miller’s 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 President’s 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 Richmond’s African Burial Ground Richmond’s First African American Police Officers River & Canal Robert E. Lee Bridge Robinson House Rocketts Landing Rocketts Landing Rocketts Landing and Wharf / Confederate Navy Yard / Powhatan’s Birthplace Ross' Mill Race Royster House Rumors of War Rutherfoord’s Mill Sadie Heath Cabaniss Saint John’s Church Saint John’s 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. John’s 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 Virginia’s 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. John’s Church Welcome to Richmond’s Historic Riverfront West of the Boulevard Historic District What’s 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!”
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.
Brief timeline of the history 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.

This timeline provides a glimpse into the major events and milestones that have shaped the history of Richmond County, Virginia.

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