Church Hill Tunnel
Church Hill Tunnel is an old Chesapeake and Ohio Railway tunnel, built in the early 1870s, which extends approximately 4,000 feet under the Church Hill district of Richmond, Virginia, United States.Photo: Jkmscott, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: tunnel abandoned due to collapse in Richmond, Virginia
- Also known as: “C&O Church Hill Tunnel Western Portal”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Trinity Methodist Church and Virginia Holocaust Museum.
Trinity Methodist Church
Church
Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.
Trinity Methodist Church, also known as Trinity United Methodist Church and New Light Baptist Church, is a historic Methodist church located in Richmond, Virginia. Trinity Methodist Church is situated 600 feet south of Church Hill Tunnel.
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. Virginia Holocaust Museum is situated 2,100 feet south of Church Hill Tunnel.
Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground
Grassland
The Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground, known historically as the "Burial Ground for Negroes" and the "old Powder Magazine ground", is the older of two municipal burial grounds established for the interment of free people of color and the enslaved in the city of Richmond, Virginia. Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground is situated 1,200 feet northwest of Church Hill Tunnel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Union Hill and Shockoe Bottom.
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 Bottom
Neighborhood
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 Tunnel
- Categories: railway tunnel, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.53614° or 37° 32′ 10″ northLongitude
-77.42325° or 77° 25′ 24″ westOpen location code
8794GHPG+FMOpenStreetMap ID
node 3216566867OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q5116620
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to German—“Church Hill Tunnel” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “教堂山隧道”
- Dutch: “Church Hill Tunnel”
- French: “Church Hill Tunnel”
- German: “Church Hill Tunnel”
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Highlights include Jefferson Park and New Light Baptist Church.
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