From 1680 until 1780, Richmond was a principal port of entry for Africans being sold into slavery. The Manchester Slave Trail is a memorial to those who walked that route.

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Fork Inn is a restored 14-room tavern built in 1803. It served as a stagecoach stop and was used as a hospital following one of the last Civil War battles. Furnishings are from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Civil War memorabilia include w

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A self-guided, 20-minute walking trail takes visitors through the fort, which was captured by 3,000 Union soldiers on Sept. 29, 1864.

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Built by Edmund Christian in 1915, this house rests on the site from where Confederate General Robert E. Lee observed the beginnings of the Seven Day's Battle from the bluff at Meadowview.

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City Point (today's Hopewell) served as General Grant's headquarters during the Civil War Siege of Petersburg. Seven hospitals there administered most of the care for the injured and mortally wounded. Casualties were originally interred in burial grounds

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Maggie L. Walker Historic Site commemorates the life of a progressive African-American woman who grew up in post-Civil War Richmond and was the first female founder/president of a chartered bank in the United States.

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This art deco movie house opened to the public on April 25, 1938. The theater operated through 1997, when owner Randy Horne sold the property to Henrico County. The theater reopened to the public on October 27. 2007.

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Chimborazo Medical Museum sits on the site of the Civil War’s famous Chimborazo Hospital, where between 1861 and 1865, more than 75,000 Confederate soldiers received treatment.

Parker's Battery is part the Confederate defenses known as the Howlett Line. The site was manned by Parker’s “Boy Company” comprised of men from Richmond. These infantry trenches ran from the James River south to the Appomattox River, and were supported b

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In the Visitor Center at Ashland's restored 1924 train station, a museum houses RF&P (Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac) Railroad memorabilia, including conductors' uniforms, photographs and news articles.