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  2. Virginia State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    Virginia State Penitentiary was a prison in Richmond, Virginia.Towards the end of its life it was a part of the Virginia Department of Corrections.. Early 1900s. First opening in 1800, the prison was completed in 1804; it was built due to a reform movement preceding its construction. [1]

  3. Manchester Wall - Wikipedia

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    Manchester Wall is a rock climbing area located in downtown Richmond, Virginia that offers multiple routes for traditional climbing, sport climbing, and top roping. The sixty-foot granite wall is a remnant of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Bridge , which spanned the James River for much of the nineteenth century.

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond ...

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    Location of Richmond in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...

  5. Sherwood Park (Richmond, Virginia) - Wikipedia

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    The city of Richmond was a racially segregated city and Ginter insisted on a large surrounding fence to keep the large nearby black population out. Olmsted's firm redrew the borders so that a gated community could be built to wall off the site from its unwelcome neighbors.

  6. Lumpkin's Jail - Wikipedia

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    Lumpkin's Jail, also known as "the Devil's half acre", was a slave breeding farm, [1] as well as a holding facility, or slave jail, located in Richmond, Virginia, just three blocks from the state capitol building.

  7. Albums are supposed to be cohesive, and ‘Off the Wall’ is more cohesive than ‘Thriller.’ Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own ...

  8. Off the Wall - Wikipedia

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    Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by the American singer Michael Jackson, released on August 10, 1979, by Epic Records. It was Jackson's first album released through Epic Records, and the first produced by Quincy Jones , whom he met while working on the 1978 film The Wiz .

  9. 12 Increasingly Off-the-Wall Housing Reforms - AOL

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    An off-the-wall idea to fix this problem would be to do zoning Japanese-style. In the land of the rising sun, the national government is responsible for coming up with zoning districts.