A People's Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia

Contents

List of Maps

INTRODUCTION

1 DOWNTOWN RICHMOND

1.1 Devil's Half Acre | 1.2 African Burial Ground | 1.3 1708 Gallery (former
location) | 1.4 Adams Express Company | 1.5 Walker and Harris Tobacco Factory |
1.6 First African Baptist Church (former location) | 1.7 The Egyptian Building |
1.8 Old City Hall | 1.9 Governor's Mansion | 1.10 Hotel Raleigh | 1.11 John
Marshall Courts Building | 1.12 Federal Building | 1.13 Kanawha Plaza | 1.14 Sing
Residence (former) | 1.15 Thalhimers Department Store (former) | 1.16 In
Conversation Mural / Mending Walls RVA | 1.17 Spottswood W. Robinson III
and Robert R. Merhige, Jr. U. S. Courthouse | 1.18 Virginia Electric and Power
Company | 1.19 Tredegar Iron Works | 1.20 Belvidere Hill Baptist Church (former)

2 EAST END RICHMOND

2.1 Belle Bryan Day Nursery (former) | 2.2 Van Lew Mansion (former) | 2.3 Site of
Battle of Bloody Run | 2.4 Spencer E. Jones III Residence (former) | 2.5 Willie
Mallory Residence (former) | 2.6 CSX Fulton Yard | 2.7 Creighton Court | 2.8 East
End Cemetery | 2.9 The East End Landfill

3 NORTHSIDE RICHMOND

3.1 Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church | 3.2 Law Offices of Oliver Hill (former) |
3.3 Richmond Planet Offices (former) | 3.4 The Hippodrome | 3.5 Ebenezer
Baptist Church | 3.6 True Reformers Hall (former) | 3.7 Navy Hill School
(former) | 3.8 Virginia First Regiment Armory (former) | 3.9 Richmond Colored
Normal School (former) | 3.10 St. Luke Penny Savings Bank | 3.11 Charles S. Gilpin
Community Farm | 3.12 Overby-Sheppard Elementary School | 3.13 Battery
Park | 3.14 Walter Plecker Residence (former) | 3.15 A. H. Robins Company (former) |
3.16 Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Headquarters (former
location) | 3.17 Bryan Park

4 THE FAN AND WEST END

4.1 Marcus-David Peters Circle (formerly Lee Circle) | 4.2 Stuart Circle | 4.3 Fan
Free Clinic (former) | 4.4 University Student Commons, Virginia Commonwealth
University | 4.5 Department of Motor Vehicles | 4.6 Richmond Triangle Players'
Robert B. Moss Theatre | 4.7 Rumors of War Statue at the Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts | 4.8 The Virginia Flaggers | 4.9 First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond |
4.10 Byrd Park | 4.11 Phoenix Rising (former) | 4.12 Athena Mural | 4.13 Public
Water Hydrant in Westwood Neighborhood (former) | 4.14 Mekong Restaurant

5 SOUTHSIDE RICHMOND

5.1 Ancarrow's Landing | 5.2 Perdue Farms Inc. (former) | 5.3 New Life Deliverance
Tabernacle | 5.4 Sacred Heart Catholic Church / Iglesia del Sagrado Corazon |
5.5 Carrington and Michaux Plant (former) | 5.6 Rudd's Trailer Park | 5.7 La Mancha
(Southwood Apartments) | 5.8 Broad Rock Sports Complex | 5.9 City of Richmond /
Chesterfield County Boundary | 5.10 McDonough Community Garden |
5.11 Huguenot High School | 5.12 Phillip Morris USA

6 PETERSBURG AND POINTS SOUTH OF RICHMOND

6.1 Islamic Center of Virginia | 6.2 La Siesta Restaurant (former) | 6.3 Colbrook
Motel (former) | 6.4 213-215 Witten Street | 6.5 Beaux Twenty Club (former) |
6.6 Legends Historical Park and Wilcox Lake | 6.7 Central State Hospital (formerly
the Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane) | 6.8 Matoaca Manufacturing
Company (former) | 6.9 Life Sciences Products Company (former) | 6.10 Hopewell
Municipal Building

7 CHARLOTTESVILLE AND POINTS WEST OF RICHMOND

7.1 Market Street Park | 7.2 Congregation Beth Israel | 7.3 AIDS Services Group
(former) | 7.4 Charlottesville Woolen Mills | 7.5 Martha "Mattie" Thompson
Residence (former) | 7.6 Muldowney's Pub (former) | 7.7 Omni Hotel |
7.8 Oakwood Cemetery | 7.9 Hemings Family Residence (former) | 7.10 The
Rotunda, University of Virginia | 7.11 The Lawn at the University of Virginia |
7.12 Memorial Gym | 7.13 Wood's Crossing | 7.14 Skyline Drive and Shenandoah
National Park | 7.15 Union Hill Baptist Church | 7.16 Dillwyn Correctional
Center | 7.17 Rassawek

8 THE HISTORIC TRIANGLE AND POINTS EAST OF RICHMOND

8.1 Proposed Site of Chickahominy Gas Power Station | 8.2 Samaria Indian
School (former) | 8.3 Sandy Point | 8.4 Wilson's Wharf | 8.5 The Brafferton |
8.6 Palace Green | 8.7 Wetherburn's Tavern | 8.8 Jamestown Church |
8.9 College Landing Park | 8.10 Yorktown Naval Weapons Station |
8.11 Slabtown (former) | 8.12 Werowocomoco | 8.13 Hayes Post Office
(former) | 8.14 Gloucester County High School | 8.15 Pamunkey Pottery
School and Guild | 8.16 King William County Courthouse | 8.17 Scotland
Landing | 8.18 White House Landing | 8.19 George W. Watkins School

9 THEMATIC TOURS

Monuments and Murals Tour | Virginia Indians Tour | Black Freedom |
Struggles for Self-Determination Tour | Queer Cultures and Histories Tour |
Food Justice Tour

Recommended Reading
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index