Southern States Silo

Southern States Silo is an industrial building in Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia which is located on Manchester Road. Southern States Silo is situated nearby to Manchester Canal, as well as near the scenic viewpoint Floodwall Overlook.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Virginia Holocaust Museum and Libby Prison.

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 2,700 feet northeast of Southern States Silo.

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. Libby Prison is situated 2,500 feet northeast of Southern States Silo.

James River and Kanawha Canal

Canal

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The James River and Kanawha Canal was a partially built canal in Virginia intended to facilitate shipments of passengers and freight by water between the western counties of Virginia and the coast.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shockoe Bottom and Shockoe Slip.

Shockoe Bottom

Neighborhood

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0.

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.

Manchester

Quarter

Photo: Morgan Riley, CC BY 3.0.

Manchester is a former independent city in Virginia in the United States. Prior to receiving independent status, it served as the county seat of Chesterfield County, between 1870 and 1876.

Southern States Silo

Type: Industrial building
Address: 4 Manchester Road, Richmond, VA 23224
Categories: building and industry
Location: Richmond, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.52667° or 37° 31′ 36″ north

Longitude

-77.43373° or 77° 26′ 1″ west

Open location code

8794GHG8+MG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 252837458

OpenStreetMap feature

building=industrial

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