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Coordinates: 37°31′57.2514″N 77°25′54.876″W. The canal in 1865. The James River and Kanawha Canal was a partially built canal in Virginia intended to facilitate shipments of passengers and freight by water between the western counties of Virginia and the coast. Ultimately its towpath became the roadbed for a rail line following the ...
Brown's Island is an artificial island on the James River in Richmond, Virginia, formed by the Haxall Canal.Part of the city's James River Park, it is the popular venue of a large number of outdoor concerts and festivals in the spring and summer, such as the weekly Friday Cheers concert series or Dominion Riverrock.
Recent renovations included the rebuilt James River and Kanawha Canal and Haxall Canal, now designed as a Canal Walk. The riverfront project has brought this 1.25-mile (2.01 km) corridor back to life, with trendy loft apartments, restaurants, shops and hotels winding along the Canal Walk, along with canal boat cruises and walking tours.
In 1999, the City of Richmond completed its canal walk project, a refurbishment of a 1.25-mile segment of the Haxall Canal and the James River & Kanawha Canal that had fallen into disuse. Developed as a tourist destination, the area surrounding the Canal Walk was branded by The River District Alliance (RDA) (a 501(c)6 public/private ...
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Brown's Island Dam Walk. Coordinates: 37°31′56.45″N 77°26′42.23″W. Bridge view from south side of the James River. The Brown's Island Dam Walk, also known as the VEPCO Levee Dam is a structure across the James River in Richmond, Virginia that connects Brown's Island to the James River Parks System on the Manchester side of the river.
Multi-use, Walking, cycling. The Fall Line Trail (FLT) is an approximately 43 mile [1] multi-use trail currently under development — from a northern terminus in Ashland, Virginia to a southern terminus in Petersburg, Virginia. Early in its development, the trail had been identified as the Ashland to Petersburg Trail (ATP), and was formally ...
The city's population in the 2020 census was 226,610, up from 204,214 in 2010, 7 making it Virginia's fourth-most populous city. 8 The Richmond metropolitan area, with over 1.3 million residents, is the Commonwealth's third-most populous . Richmond is located at the James River's fall line, 44 mi (71 km) west of Williamsburg, 66 mi (106 km ...