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Carytown, Richmond, Virginia. Coordinates: 37°33′7.3″N 77°28′48.8″W. Carytown, seen from West Cary Street, with the Byrd Theatre on the right. Carytown is an urban retail district in Richmond, Virginia; it is along Cary Street at the southern end of the Museum District. Located west of the historic Fan District, Carytown has an ...
August 13, 1985 [ 2] The Fan is a district of Richmond, Virginia, so named because of the "fan" shape of the array of streets that extend west from Belvidere Street, on the eastern edge of Monroe Park, westward to Arthur Ashe Boulevard. However, the streets rapidly resemble a grid after they go through what is now Virginia Commonwealth ...
Richmond ( / ˈrɪtʃmənd / RITCH-mənd) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city since 1871. 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]
June 2, 1970; April 17, 1990 [2] Church Hill, also known as the St. John's Church Historic District, is an Old and Historic District in Richmond, Virginia. This district encompasses the original land plat of the city of Richmond. Church Hill is the eastern terminus of Broad Street, a major east-west thoroughfare in the Richmond metropolitan area.
The Carver neighborhood, also called Sheep Hill, lies north of Broad Street (Richmond, Virginia) to the west of Jackson Ward and downtown Richmond. Carver was first settled by blue-collar Jewish and German tradesmen, and became a thriving black community in the early 1900s before being cut through by major thoroughfares such as Jefferson Davis ...
Scott's Addition was named because it was a section of the 600-acre property inherited in 1818 by U.S Army General Winfield Scott from his father-in-law, Colonel John Mayo. Residential development began in 1890. Driven by the railroad, Scott's Addition was rezoned for industrial development in 1927. [3]
Southside generally comprises the area between the James River and SR 288. With minor exceptions, Chippenham Parkway (State Route 150) forms the border between the City of Richmond and the County of Chesterfield. Several ZIP codes on the Southside have a preferred place name of "Richmond, Virginia" even though in some cases that land falls ...
A row of houses in the Jackson Ward neighborhood of Richmond. The district was listed as a Landmark District in 1978.. Richmond, Virginia, is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the fifth largest city in the state in terms of population, and the main anchor city for the Greater Richmond Region, the third largest metropolitan statistical area in the Commonwealth, and the 43rd ...