Richmond City Canal

Richmond City Canal is a canal in Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia. Richmond City Canal is situated nearby to the neighborhood Shockoe Bottom, as well as near Shockoe Slip.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Virginia Holocaust Museum and Libby Prison.

Virginia Holocaust Museum

Museum

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The Virginia Holocaust Museum is a public history museum located in Richmond, Virginia, United States, dedicated to interpreting the history of the Holocaust through survivor testimony, artifacts, and educational programming.

Libby Prison

Archaeological site

Photo: Alexander Gardner (photographer), Public domain.

Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. In 1862 it was designated to hold officer prisoners from the Union Army, taking in numbers from the nearby Seven Days Battles and other conflicts of the Union's Peninsular campaign to take Richmond and end the war only a year after it had begun.

Edgar Allan Poe Museum

Museum

Photo: Albrecht Conz, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Poe Museum or the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, is a museum located in the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States, dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shockoe Bottom and Shockoe Slip.

Shockoe Bottom

Neighborhood

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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.

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.

Church Hill

Quarter

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Church Hill, encompassing the St. John's Church Historic District, is a neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia. This district encompasses the original land plat of the city of Richmond.

Richmond City Canal

Type: Canal
Category: body of water
Location: Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.52931° or 37° 31′ 46″ north

Longitude

-77.42554° or 77° 25′ 32″ west

Elevation

16 feet (5 metres)

Open location code

8794GHHF+PQ

GeoNames ID

4781717

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Satellite Map

Discover Richmond City Canal from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

Localities in the Area

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