Shockoe Bottom
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.- Type: Neighborhood with 2,750 residents
- Description: human settlement in Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Neighbors: Downtown Richmond
Places of Interest
Highlights include Virginia Holocaust Museum and Edgar Allan Poe Museum.
Virginia Holocaust Museum
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Virginia Holocaust Museum is a public history museum located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The museum is dedicated to depicting the Holocaust through the personal stories of its victims.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Union Hill and Shockoe Slip.
Union Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.
Union Hill is a historic district of Richmond, Virginia. 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…
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
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Shockoe Bottom
- Category: locality
- Location: Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.53149° or 37° 31′ 53″ northLongitude
-77.42513° or 77° 25′ 31″ westPopulation
2,750Open location code
8794GHJF+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2701574772OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q7499924
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In Other Languages
“Shockoe Bottom” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Shockoe Bottom”
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