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Libby Prison

Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at , 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.
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Photo: Alexander Gardner (photographer), Public domain.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Virginia Holocaust Museum and Edgar Allan Poe Museum.

Museum
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The is a public history museum located in , , United States. The museum is dedicated to depicting the Holocaust through the personal stories of its victims.

Museum
Photo: Albrecht Conz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Poe Museum or the , is a located in the neighborhood of , , , dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe. is situated 560 feet north of Libby Prison.

Bridge
The is a plate girder bridge that carries the Bellwood Subdivision over the James River in . is situated 790 feet northwest of Libby Prison.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shockoe Bottom and Shockoe Slip.

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

Neighborhood
Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.
is a district in the downtown area of . The name "slip" referred to a narrow passageway leading from Main Street to where goods were loaded and unloaded from the former .

Neighborhood
Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.
is a historic district of , . According to the Richmond Times Dispatch, the neighborhood "generally is bordered on the south by East Marshall Street and Jefferson Avenue, on the west by Mosby Street, on the north by O and Carrington…

Libby Prison

Latitude
37.53064° or 37° 31′ 50″ north
Longitude
-77.4266° or 77° 25′ 36″ west
Named after
Luther Libby
Open location code
8794GHJF+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11658786502
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q926372
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In Other Languages

From Finnish to Swedish—“Libby Prison” goes by many names.
  • Finnish: “Libbyn vankila”
  • German: “Libby-Gefängnis”
  • Japanese: “リビー刑務所”
  • Japanese: “リビー監獄”
  • Swedish: “Libbyfängelset”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Henrico County Courthouse and Richmond Balance.

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Explore places such as Upper Lofts at Canal Walk and Richbrau Brewing.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Libby Prison”. Photo: Alexander Gardner (photographer), Public domain.