Creighton Court 1953
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- Partial Building Collapse on Grace St
- Some observations of the Richmond Food Cart Derby
- RPS Board moves time of today’s re-zoning meeting and up to 4 schools could be “repurposed”
- Maggie Walker named 16th best public high school in the nation
I can see my house from here! Woodville is at the top of that picture. Look Cool Lane went all the way through before the highway was built! I have always wanted to see what those now demolished houses looked like before Fairfield was built in 1957.
There are much larger & sharper versions of some of these photos at the Library of Virginia right now, though I don’t know if this one in included.
I checked out the whole set. There is a larger verson. I wish someone had taken a picure of Woodville specifically back then.
I wish they would resume talking about tearing down all of the “courts” in Richmond and trying a different method. All of this concentration of poverty creates a negative culture that leads to little motivation to get out. Trust me, I have been working in this community with clients from these areas for a long time now, and I see it everyday.
I know back in the 1950s (and probably earlier) these “courts” were all over and I lived in one growing up at one point in time. It was mainly for lower income and not necessarily to encourage segregation but they eventually ended up that way. I am not sure if Mosby, Creighton, etc… were specifically built for the black community since I am not a Richmond native so what were their background?