Shockoe Valley

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Places of Interest Nearby

Edgar Allan Poe Museum

Museum

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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.

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 510 feet south of Shockoe Valley.

Libby Prison

Archaeological site

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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. Libby Prison is situated 650 feet south of Shockoe Valley.

Places in the Area

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

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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.

Union Hill

Neighborhood

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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…

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