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What are the 7 hills of Richmond?
rvabusiness has a poke at The Seven Hills of Richmond:
The Seven Hills of Richmond seem to have always been a controversial topic in RVA. Today, many people consider the Seven Hills to be a myth.
The truth is, the official Seven Hills were declared in a 1937 ordinance by the City of Richmond but the ordinance was never passed.
Since then, the confusion has only grown larger. In 1947 The Richmond Times Dispatch published an article that attempted to clear the air about the Seven Hills. The article said that there were various lists of Richmond’s original hills and the hills that were found in 1937 were not accepted by the City Council.
Although the Seven Hills were never made official, those neighborhoods have shaped the city’s history and are a part of what make RVA unique.
TAGGED: Union Hill
Back in 2006: http://richmondcity.blogspot.com/2006/05/seven-hills-of-richmond-by-bicycle.html
The seven hills are not even a myth, it’s just not an actuality. It was a reference in semi-jest. If you really wanted to piece together seven hills out of our many for inclusion in the seven hills list, remember to include those hills which we don’t even really have anymore.
I founds this interesting…is there a map anywhere that would show where these hills are? Granted, I’m familiar with Church and Union but some of the others I have never heard of…
Here’s a google map that gives an idea of where the hills are/ would be today.
http://rvabusiness.com/2012/the-seven-hills-of-richmond/
For anyone interested, while doing historical research about our house and the surrounding area, I found that Church Hill prior to the Civil War ran across Broad Street up to where the Hill Cafe is now. Broad did not go straight through there then.