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The private market included 12 stores and a bowling alley. [14] Since its closing in the 1960s, the structure has been converted for retail and entertainment for Station North Arts and Entertainment District. Richmond Market: 1853: 301 West Read Street, Baltimore, MD 21201
The Grocery Store was a Richmond-based chain Farm Fresh operated for a time in the late 1980s and for much of the 1990s, with Farm Fresh converting 15 stores it acquired from Safeway in November 1993 as Safeway exited the Richmond market. [2] Rack & Sack stores and Food Carnivals closed by 2003, while The Market closed in 2011.
Ukrop's Super Markets was founded in 1937 by Joseph Ukrop. The company had 26 stores, [1] mostly in the Richmond area, as well as one store in Williamsburg, and one each in Colonial Heights, Petersburg, and Fredericksburg.
The Blues Armory is a large brick armory in downtown Richmond, Virginia. Housing the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, the castle-like structure originally served multiple purposes, with a food market on the ground floor and a drill hall for the National Guard of the United States on the top floor. The level between housed suites of offices for ...
The fires spread out of control, and destroyed large parts of the city, reaching to the very edge of Capitol Square mostly unchecked. At dawn, Richmond's mayor and other civilians went to the Union lines east of Richmond on New Market Road (now State Route 5) and surrendered the city; Union troops entered and eventually quenched the flames. [15]
The Richmond flagship location was known for its "SantaLand" upstairs attraction, which has since become an attraction at the Children’s Museum of Richmond. Following a series of ownership changes starting in 1967, Campeau Corporation purchased Miller & Rhoads in 1987 and later sold it to Philadelphia developer Kevin Donohoe and store ...
The Richmond, Virginia slave market was the largest slave market in the Upper South region of the United States in the 1840s and 1850s. [1] An estimated 3,000 to 9,000 slaves were sold out of Virginia annually between 1820 and 1860, many of them through Richmond (as well as Norfolk , Alexandria , Lynchburg , and other Virginia towns). [ 2 ]
The Richmond Town Square opened in September 1966 as Richmond Mall. In 1997, Woolworths closed their store at the mall. In 1998, Kaufmann's was added to the mall as an anchor, originally located at the Euclid Square Mall in Euclid, Ohio , the anchor changes included the expansion of the Loews Theater from a 10-screen theater to a 20-screen ...