Riggan’s Canal-Blueway Plan
Phil Riggan, who now writes the “Why Richmond, Why?” column for the Richmond Times Dispatch, earlier this week presented his final project for his VCU studies, a plan for making the Kanawha Canal...
View Article“Oregon Hill Proposed Conditions for Tredegar Green Amphitheater”
The following letter was sent from an attorney hired by the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association on June 17 to members of City Council, the Mayor’s office, Richmond Police Department, and others. Dear...
View ArticleRailroad in The Penitentiary Basin
The Penitentiary Basin was dammed at the beginning of the 19th century, between Oregon Hill and Gambles Hill and below the Va. State Penitentiary. It served as an important turning basin for canal...
View ArticleFolk Festival and a (Deliberately) Missed Opportunity
For eleven years now I have enjoyed attending the annual Folk Festival held on Richmond’s riverfront, a short walk from the neighborhood. This year was no exception. I caught such great acts as the...
View ArticleVenture Richmond Installing Stairs Along Canal
A report confirms that Venture Richmond is installing stairs on the steep slopes leading into it’s “Tredegar Green” area from the “Brown’s Island Way” street – one where the tow path intersects the...
View ArticleHistoric Photo of Upriver
Before the “North Bank Trail“, this is a photo taken from Hollywood Cemetery, looking up the James River and Kanawha Canal.
View Article‘Tredegar Green’– Still No Response To Neighborhood Concerns
Venture Richmond, a very powerful special interests group, still has plans to apply for re-zoning the Tredegar Green property near Oregon Hill. Venture Richmond has talked about the need for Oregon...
View ArticleRVA Archeology Hosts Public Lecture POSTPONED
UPDATE: This event has been postponed. UPDATE: Due to an unavoidable development, the RVA Archaeology meeting and public lecture will NOT be held this weekend. We are working to reschedule it and will...
View ArticleHydro-Electric Proposal and Future Of James River
This morning some people were surprised by this headline in the Times Dispatch: “Application filed for hydroelectric project at Bosher’s Dam”. If they had attended the author’s talk earlier this week,...
View ArticleDueling Maps of the Towpath, Again?
Nothing better than a good history rumble, and RVAHub.com may have started one with a post on the history of Harvie’s Pond that tries to reintroduce some troubling assertions about the history of the...
View ArticleIt’s Nowhere Near St. Paddy’s Day…
…so why has this portion of the James River and Kananwha Canal turned green?
View ArticleNew Interpretive Sign On North Bank Trail
There is a new interpretive sign beside the canal on the North Bank Trail showing the location of the old water works below Hollywood Cemetery.
View ArticleDamaging Historic Canal (Again)
Neighbors were horrified today to see this giant excavator actually sitting in the wetlands of the canal scrapping away at the bank of the historic James River and Kanawha Canal, which is listed on the...
View ArticleMeeting At The Canal
17 officials met this morning at the James River and Kanawha Canal in response to concerns expressed by neighbors over recent damage to the canal. Thankfully, the consensus from this meeting is that...
View ArticleIntermediate Terminal #3, Section 106 Comment, by Charles Pool
This is not Oregon Hill news, but it is newsworthy, and does relate back to the neighborhood’s efforts to preserve Canal and riverfront history. Laurel Street neighbor Charles Pool has submitted a...
View ArticleAn Appeal For Intermediate Terminal #3
Following up on an earlier post, neighbor Charles Pool has written an appeal to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation of the recent DHR determination that the Intermediate Terminal is not...
View ArticleTwo Important Activist Events This Thursday
This Thursday evening there are two events that local activists may find enticing. First is a protest against the influence of money on our government from corporate interests, and in particular...
View ArticleWildlife Sounds In The Canal
frogsincanal from Scott Burger on Vimeo. This movie was taken about a month ago from the bridge over the Kanawha Canal on the Brown’s Island Way/Second Street Connector. The camera faced west towards...
View ArticleLetter To Council On New Market’s Threat Against The Canal
From letter: Dear Honorable Members of the Richmond City Council, It is devastating to learn that New Market has applied with the Corps of Engineers to backfill the historic James River and Kanawha...
View ArticleCanal Cover Up
See related posts here on this historic canal. One of the outstanding questions is what is the danger of the canal is that it requires this action?
View ArticleMore Destruction Of Canal
It looks like they are turning the canal at Tredegar into a sewer line to collect New Market’s drainage to deposit into the remaining canal. They totally removed the north bank of the historic canal....
View ArticleIrises in James River and Kanawha Canal
Thankfully Venture Richmond has ceased spraying herbicide in the Jame River and Kanawha Canal at the request of the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association. As a result the canal is teaming with...
View ArticleYellow Iris
After Venture Richmond ceased discharging herbicides in the James River and Kanawha Canal at Oregon Hill’s request, the yellow iris, red winged blackbirds, and amphibians have returned!
View ArticleHistoric Canal Alterations
While the Haxall canal was drained for repairs… …the historic James River and Kanawha Canal behind Tredegar being altered, probably for an amphitheater.
View ArticleRiverfront Amphitheater Plan Augmented With New Temple
In the latest news on riverfront development, CoStar, soon to be Richmond’s largest employer, is joining the New Market Corporation to bring an Asian-themed temple to the downtown scene. The large...
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