Swan Lake

Swan Lake is a reservoir in Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia. Swan Lake is situated nearby to the neighborhood Randolph, as well as near Carillon.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Byrd Park and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

Byrd Park

Park

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Byrd Park, also known as William Byrd Park, is a public park located in Richmond, Virginia, United States, north of the James River and adjacent to Maymont.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Museum

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The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Richmond, Virginia, United States, which opened in 1936. The museum is owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Maymont is a 100-acre Victorian estate and public park in Richmond, Virginia. It contains Maymont Mansion, now a historic house museum, an arboretum, an Italian and Japanese garden, a carriage collection, native wildlife exhibits, a nature center, and a petting zoo.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Randolph and Carillon.

Randolph

Neighborhood

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Randolph is a historically black middle class neighborhood located within the West End of Richmond, Virginia. The neighborhood is named in honor of Virginia E.

Carillon

Neighborhood

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Carillon is a neighborhood in the West End of Richmond that is situated in between Virginia State Route 146 and 161. Adjacent to Maymont and Byrd Park, the middle-class neighborhood is home to the Dogwood Dell Amphitheater.

The Fan

Photo: Bruce Emmerling, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Fan is a district in Richmond, Virginia. It is named The Fan because of the way the roads fan out to the west from N. Belvidere St. It is easy to find a variety of boundaries that "define" the Fan, just ask a variety of Richmonders.

Swan Lake

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

37.54242° or 37° 32′ 33″ north

Longitude

-77.47346° or 77° 28′ 25″ west

Elevation

184 feet (56 metres)

Open location code

8794GGRG+XJ

GeoNames ID

4788497

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