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Dutch Gap Canal is located on the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia just north of the lost 17th-century town of Henricus.The canal's construction was initiated by Union forces during the American Civil War to bypass a meander loop of the river around a peninsula known as Farrar's Island that was controlled by Confederate artillery.
In 1983, another 103 acres of Farrar's Island was transformed into an ash pond for the nearby Dominion Chesterfield Power Station located on the Dutch Gap Cutoff on the James River. Facing environmental criticism in 2016, Dominion planned to move toxic coal ash from the pond on Farrar's Island to a lined landfill at the Chester Power Station.
The channel was widened in 1870, and became the main channel of the James River, and the old river channel silted up, forming what is now the 810-acre (3.3 km 2) Dutch Gap Conservation Area. In 1922, Chesterfield County annexed the former location of Henricus south of the Dutch Gap Canal from Henrico County. [5]
English: This is a drawing by Chesterfield County, Virginia of Farrar's Island on the James River, which today is the Dutch Gap Conservation Area and Boat Landing and site of the historic Henricus City.
Wooden bridge to privately-owned island crosses a side-channel of the James River. The main shipping channel lies to the south in the Aiken Swamp-Dutch Gap Cutoff: Cox's Ferry: SR 615 (Coxendale Road) at Osborne's Landing Cox's Landing: Abandoned Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge: SR 895: Bensley to northwest of Varina: 2002 37°26′31″N 77 ...
The Dutch Gap Canal Lights were built to mark the ends of Dutch Gap Canal, now called Dutch Gap Cutoff, [2] which is a 3 ⁄ 4 nautical mile (1.4 km; 0.86 mi) cut across the base of an oxbow in the James River between Hopewell and Richmond, Virginia. They were on Farrar's Island, on the south side of the river. [1] [2]
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The house stands in a state of ruin in the woods just west of the Dutch Gap power station. Bellwood is a historic plantation house, that has also been known as Sheffield, Auburn Chase, and New Oxford. Bellwood was built on Sheffield, a plantation owned by the Seth Ward family since the mid 17th century.