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Promoted by such men as George Washington, Edmund Randolph, and John Marshall, the James River Company opened in 1790 as the first commercial canal in the United States.. Stretching from Richmond, Virginia to Westham, Virginia and paralleling the James for 7 miles (11 km), it supplemented existing bateaux transportation on the James Ri
Northern Virginia, locally referred to as NOVA or NoVA, comprises several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The region radiates westward and southward from Washington, D.C., the nation's capital, and has a population of 3,257,133 people as of 2023 U.S. Census Bureau estimates, representing over a third of the state's total population.
View of Richmond above the Canal Basin, after the Evacuation Fire of 1865 Lithograph depicting the Evacuation Fire (Currier & Ives, 1865). Richmond, Virginia, served as the capital of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War from May 8, 1861, before that date the capital had been Montgomery, Alabama.
Downtown Richmond is the central business district of Richmond, Virginia, United States.It is generally defined as being bound by Belvidere Street to the west, I-95 to the north and east, and the James River to the south.
The Richmond Almshouse and hospital complex includes the Main Building, a one-story administration building built c. 1950, the West Building, and the Garage.The Main Almshouse Building was built in 1860–61, and is an Italianate style brick building consisting of three symmetrically spaced pavilions linked by hyphens.
Regency Mall is an enclosed shopping mall outside of Richmond, Virginia in unincorporated Henrico County, Virginia, United States.Opened in 1975 as Regency Square, the mall features a food court and more than 60 tenants, currently with no anchors.
After the City of Richmond's finance committee rejected the first Carnegie offer in 1901, Carnegie offered to donate $100,000 to the city of Richmond, Virginia, for a public library. The city council had to furnish a site for the building and guarantee that $10,000 in municipal funds would be budgeted for the library each year.
The orchestra pit sat 24 musicians and was considered the largest in Virginia. [3] The theater opened on November 11, 1923 with a showing of Thomas Ince's film Her Reputation, which was attended by a crowd of 2,000 that included the governor of Virginia and the mayor of Richmond. [3]