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Histories for various Richmond neighborhoods
05/04/2014 8:15 AM by John M
I’ve got these neighborhood histories scattered across a number of sites, I’m posting this to bring everything together in one place.
Oakwood/Chimborazo was the first of these that I put together back in 2009, the Ginter Park profile is the most recent from October of last year.
The top list links to articles on CHPN, the bottom list links to PDF files of the original pieces.
EAST END
- The Union Hill Historic District
- The Church Hill North Historic District
- The Fairmount Historic District
- Photographs of old Fulton
- Public Housing in Richmond
- The Oakwood-Chimborazo Historic District
OTHER
TAGGED: DHR
John, what an incredible amount of work and my thanks for pulling it all together for us.
I need to write one for Woodville…
Just spent much time reading through many of these. Wish you had one for Woodland Heights as well (my ‘hood). Thanks for sharing!
Some of you neighborhoods have really let yourselves go.
It would be great to read a history of Manchester, Woodland Heights and Forest Hill. I believe Forest Hill Park was once an amusement park, an attraction to encourage trolley use to the end of the line. I would love to know more about that.
The essential source documents for these are from the Virginia DHR. There are many many Richmond spots on the list: http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/register_Richmond.htm
The Woodland Heights document is here, though
http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Richmond/127-0830_Woodland_Heights_HD_2009_NR_FINAL.pdf
It comes with a few photos
http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Richmond/127-0830_WoodlandHeightsHD.photos.htm
and one map
http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Richmond/RichmondSouth.pdf
I agree, it would be very neat to see these southside neighborhood documents get the full treatment.