James River and Kanawha Canal

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.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Triple Crossing and Richmond Main Street Station.

Triple Crossing

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The Triple Crossing in Richmond, Virginia, is one of two places in North America where three railroad lines cross at different levels at the same spot, the other being the BNSF operated Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City.

Richmond Main Street Station

Railway station

Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.

Richmond Main Street Station, officially the Main Street Station and Trainshed, is a historic railroad station and office building in Richmond, Virginia.

Virginia State Capitol

Government office

Photo: Ron Cogswell, CC BY 2.0.

The Virginia State Capitol is the seat of state government of the Commonwealth of Virginia, located in Richmond, the state capital. It houses the oldest elected legislative body in North America, the Virginia General Assembly, first established as the House of Burgesses in 1619.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shockoe Slip and Richmond.

Shockoe Slip

Neighborhood

Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.

Shockoe Slip is a district in the downtown area of Richmond, Virginia. The name "slip" referred to a narrow passageway leading from Main Street to where goods were loaded and unloaded from the former James River and Kanawha Canal.

Richmond

Photo: jeff horne, CC BY 2.0.

Richmond is the capital of Virginia. Richmond has a population of 227,000 and the adjacent counties of Henrico and Chesterfield combine to create a local population of more than 1.3 million people.

Shockoe Bottom

Neighborhood

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.

Shockoe Bottom, historically known as Shockoe Valley, is an area in Richmond, Virginia, just east of downtown, along the James River. Located between Shockoe Hill and Church Hill, Shockoe Bottom contains much of the land included in Colonel William Mayo's 1737 plan of Richmond, making it one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.

James River and Kanawha Canal

Type: Canal
Description: canal in Virginia, United States of America
Categories: historic district and body of water
Location: Henrico, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.5327° or 37° 31′ 58″ north

Longitude

-77.43253° or 77° 25′ 57″ west

Elevation

118 feet (36 metres)

Open location code

8794GHM8+3X

OpenStreetMap ID

way 120865532

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=canal

GeoNames ID

4766503

Wikidata ID

Q2936081

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Japanese—“James River and Kanawha Canal” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “James River and Kanawha Canal”
Dutch: “James River and Kanawha Canal”
Egyptian Arabic: “نهر جيمس وقناة كناوه”
French: “Canal de James River”
French: “Canal de Kanawha River”
French: “canal des rivières James et Kanawha”
French: “Canal des rivières James et Kanawha”
French: “James River and Kanawha Canal”
French: “James River Canal”
French: “Kanawha Canal”
French: “Kanawha River Canal”
Italian: “Canale dei fiumi James e Kanawha”
Japanese: “ジェームス・リバー・アンド・カナワ運河”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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