When they demolished this 1886 structure in 1970 they saved or reused many pieces in other places. We’ve highlighted several of them in the “Where is it?” feature in the…
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Pictured here is the old City Hall which was located on the east side of North 5th Street just north of Main. It was built in 1886 and, like its…
Anyone who has done any study of local history knows that the current system of naming streets wasn’t always in place. We can thank Mayor Thomas Bennett for establishing…
The beautiful stone arch in Hayes Arboretum on the west side of the park and visible from Elks Country Club Road is one of those little mysteries around Richmond. The arch…