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

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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

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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. 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

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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 Tunnel

Categories: railway tunnel, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.53614° or 37° 32′ 10″ north

Longitude

-77.42325° or 77° 25′ 24″ west

Open location code

8794GHPG+FM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3216566867

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=archaeological_site

Wikidata ID

Q5116620

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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”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Jefferson Park and New Light Baptist Church.

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