A People's Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ooten, Melissa Dawn.

Series:

A People's Guide Series

A People's Guide Series ; v.6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Richmond (Va.)--Guidebooks.

Richmond (Va.).

Richmond (Va.)--Description and travel.

Virginia--Guidebooks.

Virginia.

Virginia--Description and travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2023.

Summary:

An expansive guide for resistance and solidarity across this storied region. Richmond and Central Virginia are a historic epicenter of America's racialized history. This alternative guidebook foregrounds diverse communities in the region who are mobilizing to dismantle oppressive systems and fundamentally transforming the space to live and thrive. Featuring personal reflections from activists, artists, and community leaders, this book eschews colonial monuments and confederate memorials to instead highlight movements, neighborhoods, landmarks, and gathering spaces that shape social justice struggles across the history of this rapidly growing area. The sites, stories, and events featured here reveal how community resistance and resilience remain firmly embedded in the region's landscape. A People's Guide to Richmond and Central Virginia counters the narrative that elites make history worth knowing, and sites worth visiting, by demonstrating how ordinary people come together to create more equitable futures.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Maps

Introduction

1. Downtown Richmond

1.1 Devil's Half Acre

1.2 African Burial Ground

1.3 1708 Gallery (former location)

1.4 Adams Express Company

1.5 Walker and Harris Tobacco Factory

1.6 First African Baptist Church (former location)

1.7 The Egyptian Building

1.8 Old City Hall

1.9 Governor's Mansion

1.10 Hotel Raleigh

1.11 John Marshall Courts Building

1.12 Federal Building

1.13 Kanawha Plaza

1.14 Sing Residence (former)

1.15 Thalhimers Department Store (former)

1.16 In Conversation Mural / Mending Walls RVA

1.17 Spottswood W. Robinson III and Robert R. Merhige, Jr.U.S. Courthouse

1.18 Virginia Electric and PowerCompany

1.19 Tredegar Iron Works

1.20 Belvidere Hill Baptist Church (former)

2. East end Richmond

2.1 Belle Bryan Day Nursery (former)

2.2 Van Lew Mansion (former)

2.3 Site of Battle of Bloody Run

2.4 Spencer E. Jones III Residence (former)

2.5 Willie Mallory Residence (former)

2.6 CSX Fulton Yard

2.7 Creighton Court

2.8 East End Cemetery

2.9 The East End Landfill

3. Northside Richmond

3.1 Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church

3.2 Law Offices of Oliver Hill (former)

3.3 Richmond Planet Offices (former)

3.4 The Hippodrome

3.5 Ebenezer Baptist Church

3.6 True Reformers Hall (former)

3.7 Navy Hill School(former)

3.8 Virginia First Regiment Armory (former)

3.9 Richmond Colored Normal School (former)

3.10 St.Luke Penny Savings Bank

3.11 Charles S. Gilpin Community Farm

3.12 Overby-Sheppard Elementary School

3.13 Battery Park

3.14 Walter Plecker Residence (former)

3.15 A. H. Robins Company (former)

3.16 Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Headquarters (formerlocation)

3.17 Bryan Park

4. The Fan and West End.

4.1 Marcus-David Peters Circle (formerly Lee Circle)

4.2 Stuart Circle

4.3 Fan Free Clinic (former)

4.4 University Student Commons, Virginia Commonwealth University

4.5 Department of Motor Vehicles

4.6 Richmond Triangle Players Robert B. Moss Theatre

4.7 Rumors of War Statue at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

4.8 The Virginia Flaggers

4.9 First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond

4.10 Byrd Park

4.11 Phoenix Rising (former)

4.12 Athena Mural

4.13 Public Water Hydrantin Westwood Neighborhood(former)

4.14 Mekong Restaurant

5. Southside Richmond

5.1 Ancarrow's Landing

5.2 Perdue Farms Inc. (former)

5.3 New Life Deliverance Tabernacle

5.4 Sacred Heart Catholic Church / Iglesia del Sagrado Corazon

5.5 Carrington and Michaux Plant (former)

5.6 Rudd's Trailer Park

5.7 La Mancha (Southwood Apartments)

5.8 Broad Rock Sports Complex

5.9 City of Richmond / Chesterfield County Boundary

5.10 McDonough Community Garden

5.11 Huguenot High School

5.12 Philip Morris USA

6. Petersburg and Points South of Richmond

6.1 Islamic Center of Virginia

6.2 La Siesta Restaurant (former)

6.3 Colbrook Motel (former)

6.4 213-215 Witten Street

6.5 Beaux Twenty Club (former)

6.6 Legends Historical Parkand Wilcox Lake

6.7 Central State Hospital (formerly the Central Lunatic Asylum for Colored Insane)

6.8 Matoaca Manufacturing Company (former)

6.9 Life Sciences Products Company (former)

6.10 Hopewell Municipal Building

7. Charlottes Ville and Points West of Richmond

7.1 Market Street Park

7.2 Congregation Beth Israel

7.3 AIDS Services Group (former)

7.4 Charlottesville Woolen Mills

7.5 Martha "Mattie" Thompson Residence (former)

7.6 Muldowney's Pub (former)

7.7 Omni Hotel

7.8 Oakwood Cemetery

7.9 Hemings FamilyResidence (former).

7.10 The Rotunda, University of Virginia

7.11 The Lawn at the University of Virginia

7.12 Memorial Gym

7.13 Wood's Crossing

7.14 Skyline Drive and Shenandoah National Park

7.15 Union Hill Baptist Church

7.16 Dillwyn Correctional Center

7.17 Rassawek

8. The Historic Triangle and Points East of Richmond

8.1 Proposed Site of Chickahominy Gas Power Station

8.2 Samaria Indian School (former)

8.3 Sandy Point

8.4 Wilson's Wharf

8.5 The Brafferton

8.6 Palace Green

8.7 Wetherburn's Tavern

8.8 Jamestown Church

8.9 College Landing Park

8.10 Yorktown Naval Weapons Station

8.11 Slabtown (former)

8.12 Werowocomoco

8.13 Hayes Post Office (former)

8.14 Gloucester County High School

8.15 Pamunkey Pottery School and Guild

8.16 King William County Courthouse

8.17 Scotland Landing

8.18 White House Landing

8.19 George W. Watkins School

9. Thematic Tours

Monuments andMurals Tour

Virginia Indians Tour

Black Freedom Struggles for Self-Determination Tour

Queer Cultures and Histories Tour

Food Justice Tour

Recommended Reading

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520975385

OCLC:

1402816479