A recent history of Church Hill (2004-2017)
This is the archive for Church Hill People's News (CHPN), a community blog originally published at chpn.net.
Each post has navigation arrows (← and →) at the top if you would like to view the posts chronologically. (View the first post or the last post.)
You can view archives by year: 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004
There are also thousands of tags used to categorize and link the posts. Here are a select few: feature, census, map, profile, as seen, before/after, dhr, historic photos, 1780s, 1850s, 1860s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
See also: RVA Mayors 2016, Richmond's Worst Year?, King's Retreat, The Year in Photos (2009), The Richmond Trolley Strike, A brief history of the Chimborazo Mini-Mall, Back-in-the-day slumlord John Wesley Pearsall, Churches own many vacants along Fairmount Avenue, Who lived in your house?, The local work of architect Charles M. Robinson, 100 Vacant Houses, Revisiting the 10 most blighted houses in Church Hill, and screenshots of the site over the years
Information on homicides by year: 1994 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
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Please contact John Murden at murden@gmail.com with any questions.
John Murden
November 2020