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Manchester became an incorporated town in 1769 and an independent city in 1874. In 1910, it merged by mutual agreement with the larger state capital City of Richmond, achieving another "first" as the earliest of Virginia's independent cities to lose its identity. Today, "Old Manchester" is considered a neighborhood of Richmond. Many vestiges of ...
Old Town Manchester is a neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia's Southside quadrant. The neighborhood is where downtown Manchester, Richmond, Virginia, United States, was situated before the city merged with Richmond. The area is heavily industrialized, but has gone through a series of gentrification for the last 10 years.
Not to be confused with the Manchester area of Chesterfield County, Manchester (also known as Old Manchester and South Richmond) has a distinguished history of its own. Originally known as Rocky Ridge, for over 200 years, Manchester was a separate town and later independent city on the south bank of the James River across from Richmond.
The Manchester Turnpike in Chesterfield County, completed in 1807, was the first graveled roadway of any length in Virginia. The toll road ran between the coal mining area of Midlothian near the headwaters of Falling Creek and the James River port of Manchester. The current Midlothian Turnpike (U.S. Route 60) generally follows the earlier route.
4301-4313 and 4315-4327 Chamberlayne Ave. and 4800-4818 Old Brook Rd. ... Manchester Residential and Commercial Historic District. May 16, 2002
After the European discovery of North America in the 15th century, European nations competed to establish colonies on the continent. In the late 16th century, the area claimed by England was well defined along the coast, but was very roughly marked in the west, extending from 34 to 48 degrees north latitude, or from the vicinity of Cape Fear in present-day North Carolina well into Acadia.
TOMS RIVER ‐ Ron Carr, a 35-year old Manchester man who pleaded guilty to arson and other charges stemming from an antisemitic crime spree last year, was sentenced to seven years in prison by a ...
The Dooleys of Richmond: An Irish Immigrant Family in the Old and New South (U of Virginia Press, 2017). Bondurant, Agnes M. Poe's Richmond. (Richmond: Edgar Allan Poe Museum, 1977, Reprinted 1999.) Chesson, Michael B. Richmond after the war, 1865–1890 (Virginia State Library, 1981).