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Belle Isle is a 54 acre island in the city of Richmond, Virginia on the James River, and is part of the James River Park System.It is accessible to pedestrian and bicycle traffic via a suspension footbridge that runs under the Robert E. Lee Memorial Bridge from the northern shore or via a wooden bridge from the southern shore.
Belle Isle is a historic plantation house located near Lancaster, Lancaster County, Virginia.. A structure was built on the site before 1759 by William Bertand, who died that year and whose father John Betrand had emigrated to Virginia as a Huguenot refugee and patented the land in 1692.
Belle Isle State Park is located in Lancaster County, Virginia, on the Rappahannock River. It sits between Deep Creek and Morattico Creek and is currently under public ownership. The park has an area of 892 acres (3.61 km 2) [1] and has facilities for camping, fishing, boating and picnics. As of 2015, the yearly visitation was 44,502. [4]
The Virginia War Memorial is located adjacent to its northern end. A notable feature is a pedestrian footbridge which hangs below the road deck from Tredegar Street near the site of the Tredegar Iron Works on the north shore over to Belle Isle in the middle of the river. Historical Marker located on the entrance of the bridge [6]
The Belle Isle railroad bridge was a bridge that carried a spur of the Richmond and Danville Railroad across the James River and Belle Isle in Richmond, Virginia.It was built in 1872 to haul iron from the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works mills on Belle Isle and the Tredegar Ironworks on the north side of the James.
Detroit Community Sailing has had a presence on Belle Isle since 2018, hosting youth sailing camps and other programming from the historic Belle Isle Boat House, but with the fate of the structure ...
One piece of Belle Isle’s problems is that many of its historic buildings date to the early 20 th century and now require millions in deferred maintenance. Chief among them: The historic Detroit ...
Belle Isle Park, in Detroit, Michigan; Belle Isle State Park (Virginia), along the Rappahannock River in Lancaster, Virginia; Belle Isle (Lancaster, Virginia), a historic plantation house surrounded by Belle Isle State Park; Belle Isle (Richmond, Virginia), an island and public city park in the James River