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At the end of the 19th and into the 20th century, Richmond, Virginia was rapidly growing. Broad Street (its roughly 115 feet (35 m) width double the average in the city) divided the more trendy southern neighborhood centered on Grace and Franklin Streets from Jackson Ward, which shifted in demographics during this period from a German and Jewish neighborhood to an African American one.
The Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge in Richmond, Virginia carries U.S. Route 1 and U.S. Route 301 across the James River at the Fall Line.. The city acquired the original bridge from Richmond Bridge Corp in 1933, and it was named the James River Bridge but was later renamed for the Confederate general. [1]
Performance Food Group Company (PFG) is an American company that was founded in 1885 in Richmond, Virginia, by food peddler James Capers. [2] [3] Headquartered in Goochland County, Virginia (just outside Richmond), the company distributes a range of food products, and has more than 22,000 employees.
Get the Richmond, VA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Richmond is often subdivided into North Side, Southside, East End and West End. The Greater Richmond area extends beyond the city limits into nearby counties. Descriptions of Richmond often describe the large area as falling into one of the four primarily geographic references which somewhat mirror the points of a compass: North Side, Southside, East End and West End.
Mental Health Support and Counseling services will be available today from 11:00 am - 4:00 pm at the Huguenot Community Center located at 7945 Forest Hill Ave., Richmond Va. 23225.”
The Reynolds Metals Company International Headquarters is an International Style building complex set in a composed landscape in Henrico County, near Richmond, Virginia, completed in 1958. The low-rise Executive Office Building was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill , in collaboration with Richmond landscape architect ...
Church Hill Tunnel was completed in 1873 for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O), [2] [3] which was seeking to extend its trackage (of the former Virginia Central Railroad) from a terminus in the Shockoe Valley section of downtown Richmond to connect with their new Peninsula Subdivision extending approximately 75 miles (120 km) southeast down the Virginia Peninsula to reach Collis Potter ...