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May 30, 2010
Memorial
The Richmond National Cemetery on Williamsburg Road was established on September 1, 1866. Reinterments included 3,200 bodies, mostly unknown, removed from Oakwood Cemetery; 210 (115 known) from the cemetery of the Belle Isle Confederate Prison in Richmond; 12 deceased prisoners of war from a trench at the Rocketts Landing; 388 (all known but 18) from Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond; and remains from the Cold Harbor and Seven Pines battlefields, as well as from locations in Chesterfield and Hanover Counties. Some seventy different locations within a maximum distance of 25 miles of the cemetery site were searched in order that Union dead might be accorded honored burial in a national cemetery.
May 16, 2010
Hope, Renewal, and Revitalization
Presented by Veronica Jemmott (Virginia LISC) on Saturday May 15, 2010 at The 6th Annual Susan Carter Williams Memorial Seminar, presented by the Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods, on Historic Fulton: Past, Present, and Future.
May 16, 2010
Moments in Fulton Time, from Powhatan to “Patience Gromes”
Presented by Harry Kollatz on Saturday May 15, 2010 at The 6th Annual Susan Carter Williams Memorial Seminar, presented by the Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods, on Historic Fulton: Past, Present, and Future.
May 16, 2010
Fulton: A Visual History of the Hill & Valley
Presented by Selden Richardson on Saturday May 15, 2010 at The 6th Annual Susan Carter Williams Memorial Seminar, presented by the Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods, on Historic Fulton: Past, Present, and Future.
April 20, 2010
Michael Paul Williams: RRHA delivers another blow to Fulton neighborhood
From the RTD this morning. Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority is indeed distancing our historic neighborhood from it’s past.
As excavators claw at the earth in Richmond’s Fulton neighborhood, a sign announces “another revitalization project of RRHA.”
Four decades after it demolished and displaced virtually an entire community, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s body of work in Fulton more resembles an interment than a revitalization. So those who remember Fulton before urban renewal aren’t turning cartwheels over the clearing of land for 26 new single-family homes — the second phase of a project that will add 58 homes to Fulton but further distance this historic neighborhood from its past.
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