Join us as we collaborate with Richmond Magazine, TMI Consulting Inc., the Future of Richmond's Past and local restaurants to offer our next series of "Community Conversations." Each month we will discuss a locale in the city spanning Shockoe Bottom to the Boulevard. This month’s conversation on the Riverfront Development will include Jack Cooksey, executive editor for Richmond Magazine and an avid user of the James River Park System’s running and biking trails, as the featured panelist.
This will be the fourth iteration of the "Community Conversations" series. The purpose of the series is to engage the community in a dialogue about the region’s past and how that past can positively shape our collective future. The more people that join in the conversation, the more productive our efforts become, and the easier it will be for everyone to see ourselves in the history of the region.
Free and open to the public.
For information, call (804) 649-0711 ext. 322
2014 Schedule
Shockoe Bottom's Future - January 7, 6-8pm at Arcadia
Monroe Park - February 4, 6-8pm at The Nile
Riverfront Development - March 4, 6-8pm at F.W. Sullivan's Canal Bar & Grill
Transportation on Broad Street - April 1, 6-8pm at Mama J's Kitchen
Up and Down the Boulevard - May 1, 6-8pm in the Claiborne Robertson Room at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Richmond, VA and Its Vicinity engraving
1863
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Pontoon Bridge, Richmond.
Richmond National Battlefield Park
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Dunlop Flour Mills; [from south end of Mayo Bridge]
1865
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Rocketts,
1865.
Photographer: Matthew Brady
Valentine Richmond History Center
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Captured guns as Richmond Wharf
National Archives
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Panoramic View of Richmond in Ruins
"burnt district" of Richmond following the Civil War; the Virginia Manufactory of Arms and eastern most shed of Tredegar Iron Works are in the foreground; the James River in the background
c.1865
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James River and Kanawha Canal,
c. 1880
Valentine Richmond History Center
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Mayo’s Bridge
1890
Crystal Ice Company, 1891X.50.1.587Valentine Richmond History Center
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“Unidentified group” (people along riverbank on a “Richmond Sunday afternoon”)
c.1895
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Kanawha Canal and James River
December 17, 1899
Richmond Cedar WorksX.50.1.567Valentine Richmond History Center
Cook 4533
Old James River Free/9th Street Bridge
1910
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Virginia Boat Club
Valentine Richmond History Center
Allen & Ginter Tobacco Company, 1911CC no numberCook collection, Valentine Richmond History Center
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Mayo/14th Street Bridge
1913
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Train travelling along Manchester side of James River
1920
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The James River and Kanawha Canal, looking west from 7th Street.
1923
Palmer Gray Collection, Valentine Richmond History Center
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Standard Paper Manufacturing Company; East 1st Street and Hull Street
1925
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Allen & Ginter Building at 7th and Canal Streets
Cook collection, Valentine Richmond History Center
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Old Dominion Ironworks
Cook Collection, Valentine Richmond History Center
no number
Tredegar Rolling Mills,
ca. WWI
Valentine Richmond History Center
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Tobacco Row, c.1955
Valentine Richmond History Center
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Flooded street on East End
Valentine Richmond History Center
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[Dixie-Portland Flour Mills Grain Elevator]
c. 1955
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June 1972 flood
Valentine Richmond History Center
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Floodwater covers warehouse area in downtown Richmond
1972
Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection
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Cars passing through flooded Lombardy Street underpass, 1973
Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection, Valentine Richmond History Center
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Downtown Richmond construction,
1974
Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection, Valentine Richmond History Center
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Federal Reserve Construction
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Men Fish From Bank Of James River As Haze Lends Gray Texture To New Federal Reserve Building
June 17, 1977
Richmond Times-Dispatch Photograph Collection
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Tying Up the Boats
August 5, 1977
Richmond Times-Dispatch Photograph Collection
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Site of The James Center, Excavation of canal boats
August, 1983
photographer: Maurice Duke
Valentine Richmond History Center
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U.S. white water rafting team practicing on the James
c.1986
Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection
Valentine Richmond History Center
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“A closer look” (boy looking at his brick installed along Canal Walk for Richmond Renaissance’s riverfront improvement project
1987 (September 10)
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“Bridge to the Past”
1988 (March 3)
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New 9th Street/Manchester Bridge
November 8, 1988
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“Pedestrian Bridge to Brown’s Island”
1989 (January 10)
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Couple watches flooded James River from Brown's Island, 1989
Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection, Valentine Richmond History Center