Streets
Information about streets in Richmond during the Civil War

Written Accounts

1864-06-02, Richmond Whig; tobacco factories on Main and Franklin near Church Hill have been re-occupied as prisons, and the guards are forcing people off the sidewalk. Major Turner puts a stop to this practice
1864-06-18, Richmond Whig; former barracks of the City Battalion, at Canal and 8th, is fast becoming a ruin
1864-06-27, Richmond Examiner; insolent Yankee POW struck (and knocked out) for making a slur upon a Richmond lady
1864-07-15, Richmond Dispatch; A provision repository was robbed of several hundred dollars worth of groceries
1864-07-15, Richmond Dispatch; Summary of Mayor's Court decisions reported on July 15, 1864
1864-08-05, Richmond Dispatch; Thieves enter a storeroom by lifting the blinds from a rear window and hoisting it.
1864-09-26, Richmond Whig; man falls from a fifth story window of the Spotswood Hotel and is killed
1864-09-28, Richmond Sentinel; locomotive traveling up the connector track on 8th street, gets out of control near the Spotswood and falls back down into the canal bridge
1864-09-28, Richmond Whig; locomotive traveling up the connector track on 8th street, gets out of control near the Spotswood and falls back down into the canal bridge
1864-10-27, Richmond Sentinel; negro boy is killed after trying to jump on to the Fredericksburg train on Broad street; appeal for this practice to be stopped

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