Map showing territorial growth of Richmond
The Library of Virginia offers for sale a beautiful print of a 1923 map from the Department of Public Works called Map showing territorial growth of Richmond. The hand-drawn map shows the 9 separate annexations that occurred after Richmond was incorporated in 1742 and before 1923.
In looking at the larger version, I see that Pink Street at Carrington is labeled as Pike Street. Cedar Street is still Pleasants, too – anybody know when/why that was changed? Government Road is called National Cemetery Road, Jennie Scher is Old Mill Road, Fairmount is still S Street, and Union Hill has a Pickett Street.
There is a Streets Book on the 6th floor Survey Counter of City Hall listing many street name history facts. I am fairly sure you can find out the exact date of Pleasants’ Street in there.
That sounds cool, thanks!
most excellent groovy.
Definitely a nice map. There was a guy who was supposed to give me a map like that. I wonder if it was that one? Anyway, I have a neat big map of Richmond from 1890 I was just given. This city’s gone through some changes, but then you’ll see we hadn’t changed that much.
Holy cow. I thought that map looked familiar – I have an original on my office wall!
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