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The Tri-Cities of Virginia (also known as the Tri-City area or the Appomatox Basin) is an area in the Greater Richmond Region which includes the three independent cities of Petersburg, Colonial Heights, and Hopewell and portions of the adjoining counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, and Prince George in south-central Virginia. Other unincorporated communities located in the Tri-Cities area include Ettrick, Fort Lee, and City Point, the latter formerly a historic incorporated town which was annexed to become part of the City of Hopewell. The Tri-Cities area is centered on the Appomattox River about 25 miles (40Â km) south of Richmond. The Appomattox has its confluence with the James River near historic City Point in Hopewell. The applicable Metropolitan Statistical Area for the Tri-Cities area is the Richmond, VA MSA, which includes Richmond and counties generally to the north of the Tri-Cities area. Economic diversity
is typical of the entire RichmondPetersburg region, and helps to insulate it from hardship due to economic fluctuation in particular sectors of the economy. The region’s central location also allows it to benefit from growth in other regions of Virginia and the state as a whole. Interstate 95 is the major north-south highway. Interstate 85 and Interstate 295 also pass through, as does U.S. Route 1 (Jefferson Davis Highway), U.S. Route 301, State Route 144 (Temple Avenue). Major east-west highways are U.S. Route 460, State Route 10, and State Route 36. Major river crossings include the Martin Luther King Memorial Bridge and the twin Charles Hardaway Marks Bridges across the Appomattox River, Freight railroad service is provided by both and the Varina-Enon Bridge and the CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Corporation. Benjamin Harrison Memorial Bridge across the James River. Bus Transportation is provided by the Amtrak passenger railroad service Petersburg Area Transit . There are nine is provided with a station at Ettrick, routes serving parts of Petersburg, Ettrick, an unincorporated community in Colonial Heights (Southpark Mall area), Chesterfield County adjacent to both Fort Lee, and Prince George County that Petersburg and Colonial Heights. all have their intersection in Old Town. PAT
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and GRTC together provide express bus service between Richmond and Petersburg, with some express buses stopping at John Tyler Community College in Chester.
General William Mahone, the hero of the Battle of the Crater during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864. Fort Lee itself is named after Confederate Civil War hero Robert E. Lee. Richmond /ˈrɪtʃmənd/ is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and the Greater Richmond Region; since 1871 Richmond has been an independent city.
As of the 2010 census, the population was 204,214; in 2013, the population was estimated to be 214,114, the fourth-most populous city in Virginia. The Richmond Metropolitan Area has a population of Many sites in the tri-cities area have 1,208,101. names reflecting the region’s role in the American Civil War. A major logistics Richmond is located at the fall line of the base for the Union Army was located at James River, 44 miles (71 km) west of City Point and the City Point Railroad Williamsburg, 66 miles (106 km) east of that enabled the siege of Petersburg is Charlottesville, and 98 miles (158 km) south still in operation today. The history of of Washington, D.C. Surrounded by Henrico the Battle of the Crater can be viewed and Chesterfield counties, the city is located in Petersburg National Battlefield Park at the intersections of Interstate 95 and and is commemorated in nearby ‘Crater Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 Road and the Fort Lee entry “Mahone and Virginia State Route 288. Major suburbs Gate” gate named after Brigadier include Midlothian to the southwest, Glen Allen to the north and west, Short Pump to World Views Guides
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the west and Mechanicsville to the northeast. The site of Richmond had been an important village of the Powhatan Confederacy, and was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown in 1609, and in 1610– 1611. The present city of Richmond was founded in 1737. It became the capital of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780. During the Revolutionary War period, several notable events occurred in the city, including Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech in 1775 at St. John’s Church, and the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom written by Thomas Jefferson. During the American Civil War, Richmond served as the capital of the Confederate States of America. The city entered the 20th century with one of the world’s first successful electric streetcar systems, as well as a national hub of African-American commerce and culture, the Jackson Ward neighborhood. Richmond’s economy is primarily driven by law, finance, and government, with federal, state, and local governmental agencies, as well as notable legal and banking firms, located in the downtown area. The city is home to both the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, one of 13 United States courts of appeals, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, one of 12 Federal Reserve Banks. Dominion Resources and MeadWestvaco, Fortune 500 companies, are headquartered in the city, with others in the metropolitan area. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Richmond experienced a spike in overall crime, in particular, the city’s murder rate. The city had 93 murders for the year of 1985, with a murder rate of 41.9 killings committed per 100,000 residents. Over the next decade, the city saw a major increase in total homicides. In 1990 there were 114 murders, for a murder rate of 56.1 killings per 100,000 residents. There were 120 murders in 1995, resulting in a murder rate of 59.1 killings per 100,000 residents, one of the highest World Views Guides | 2014
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in the United States. In 2004, Morgan Quitno Press ranked Richmond as the ninth (out of 354) most dangerous city in the United States. In 2005, Richmond was ranked as the fifth most dangerous city overall and the 12th most dangerous metropolitan area in the United States. The following year, Violent Crime Murder & Non-negligent Manslaughter Rape Robbery Aggravated Assault Property Crime Burglary Larceny/Theft Motor Vehicle Theft
Richmond saw a decline in crime, ranking as the 15th most dangerous city in the United States. By 2008, Richmond’s position on the list had fallen to 49th.
than a quarter of a century. Various forms of crime tend to be declining, yet remaining above state and national averages. In 2008, the city had recorded the Richmond’s rate of major lowest homicide rate since 1971. crime, including violent and property crimes, FBI Uniform Crime decreased 47 percent Reports for Richmond for between 2004 and 2009 the year of 2009: to its lowest level in more City of Richmond Rate per 100,000 Richmond MSA Only Inhabitants 1,631 3,652 293.2 37
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1. Fortune 500 MeadWestvaco; and companies and other large Altria Group. However, corporations only Dominion Resources The Greater Richmond and MeadWestvaco are area was named the third- headquartered within the best city for business by city of Richmond; the MarketWatch in September others are located in the 2007, ranking behind neighboring counties of only the Minneapolis and Henrico and Hanover. In Denver areas and just 2008, Altria moved its above Boston. The area is corporate HQ from New home to six Fortune 500 York City to Richmond, companies: electric utility adding another Fortune 500 Dominion Resources; corporation to Richmond’s CarMax; Owens & Minor; list. In February 2006, Genworth Financial; MeadWestvaco announced
that they would move from Stamford, Connecticut, to Richmond in 2008 with the help of the Greater Richmond Partnership, a regional economic development organization that also helped locate Aditya Birla Minacs, Amazon.com, and Honeywell International, to the region. Other Fortune 500 companies, while not headquartered in the area, do have a major presence. World Views Guides | 2014
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These include SunTrust Bank (based in Atlanta), Capital One Financial Corporation (officially based in McLean, Virginia, but founded in Richmond with its operations center and most employees in the Richmond area), and the medical and pharmaceutical giant McKesson (based in San Francisco). Capital One and Altria company’s Philip Morris USA are two of the largest private Richmond-area employers. DuPont maintains a production facility in South Richmond known as the Spruance Plant. UPS Freight, the less-thantruckload division of UPS and formerly known as Overnite Transportation, has its corporate headquarters in Richmond. Richmond is also home to the Southern States Cooperative, one of the largest farm supply cooperatives in the US. As a result of its leadership role in agriculture, Southern States has continued to expand and today encompasses some World Views Guides
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1,200 retail locations in 23 states. Owned by more than 300,000 farmers since 1923, the cooperative purchases, manufactures or processes feed, seed, fertilizer, farm supplies and fuel. Other companies based in Richmond include chemical company NewMarket; Universal Corporation, a tobacco merchant; Cavalier Telephone, now Windstream, a telephone, internet, and digital television provider formed in Richmond in 1998; Cherry Bekaert & Holland, a top 30 accounting firm serving the Southeast; James River Insurance Company and Markel Insurance Company, two top 50 E&S Insurance Companies. Several of the city’s large general museums are located near the Boulevard. On Boulevard proper are the Virginia Historical Society and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, lending their name to what is sometimes called the Museum District. Nearby on Broad Street
is the Science Museum of Virginia, housed in the neoclassical former 1919 Broad Street Union Station. Immediately adjacent is the Children’s Museum of Richmond, and two blocks away, the Virginia Center for Architecture. Within the downtown are the Library of Virginia and the Valentine Richmond History Center. Elsewhere are the Virginia Holocaust Museum and the Old Dominion Railway Museum. As the primary former Capital of the Confederate States of America, Richmond is home to many museums and battlefields of the American Civil War. Near the riverfront is the Richmond National Battlefield Park Visitors Center and the American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar, both housed in the former buildings of the Tredegar Iron Works, where much of the ordnance for the war was produced. In Court End, near the Virginia State Capitol, is the Museum of the Confederacy,
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along with the Davis Mansion, also known as the White House of the Confederacy; both feature a wide variety of objects and material from the era. The temporary home of former Confederate General Robert E. Lee still stands on Franklin Street in downtown Richmond. The history of slavery and emancipation are also increasingly represented: there is a former slave trail along the river that leads to Ancarrow’s Boat Ramp and Historic Site which has been developed with interpretive signage, and in 2007, the Reconciliation Statue was placed in Shockoe Bottom, with parallel statues placed in Liverpool and Benin representing points of the Triangle Trade. Other historical points of interest include St. John’s Church, the site of Patrick Henry’s famous “Give me liberty or give me death” speech, and the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, features many of his writings and other artifacts of his life, particularly
when he lived in the city as a child, a student, and a successful writer. The John Marshall House, the home of the former Chief Justice of the United States, is also located downtown and features many of his writings and objects from his life. Hollywood Cemetery is the burial grounds of two U.S. Presidents as well as many Civil War officers and soldiers. The city is home to many monuments and memorials, most notably those along Monument Avenue. Other monuments include the A.P. Hill monument, the Bill “Bojangles” Robinson monument in Jackson Ward, the Christopher Columbus monument near Byrd Park, and the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Libby Hill. Located near Byrd Park is the famous World War I Memorial Carillon, a 56-bell carillon tower. Dedicated in 1956, the Virginia War Memorial is located on Belvedere overlooking the river, and is a monument to
Virginians who died in battle in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan, and the Iraq War. Agecroft Hall is a Tudor manor house and estate located on the James River in the Windsor Farms neighborhood of Richmond. The manor house was built in the late 15th century, and was originally located in the Agecroft area of Pendlebury, in the historic county of Lancashire in England. 2.
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Richmond has a significant arts community, some of which is contained in formal public-supported venues, and some of which is more DIY, such as local privately owned galleries, and private music venues, nonprofit arts organizations, or organic and venueless arts movements (e.g., house shows, busking, itinerant folk shows). This has led to tensions, as the city World Views Guides | 2014
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Richmond City levied an “admissions tax” to fund large arts projects like CentreStage, leading to criticism that it is funding civic initiatives on the backs of the organic local culture. Traditional Virginian folk music, including blues, country, and bluegrass are also notably present, and play a large part in the annual Richmond Folk Festival. The following is a list of the more formal arts establishments (Companies, theaters, galleries, and other large venues) in Richmond: 1.
Murals
As of 2012 a variety of murals from internationally recognized street artists have appeared throughout the city as a result of The Richmond Mural Project and the RVA Street Art Festival. Artists who have produced work in the city as a result of these festivals include ROA, Pixel Pancho, Gaia, Aryz, Alexis Diaz, Ever Siempre, Jaz, 2501, Natalia Rak, Pose MSK, Vizie, Jeff Soto, Mark Jenkins, Etam CruWorld Views Guides
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and local artists Hamilton Glass, Nils Westergard, and El Kamino. Both festivals are expected to continue this year with artists such as Ron English slated to produce work.
of theater by the Virginia Museum, reaching a peak in the 1970s with the establishment of a resident Equity company at the Virginia Museum Theater (now the Leslie Cheek) and the birth of Theatre IV, 2. P r o f e s s i o n a l a company that continues performing companies to this day. From earliest days, The city operates one of Virginia, and Richmond the oldest municipal park in particular, have systems in the country. welcomed live theatrical The park system began performances. From Lewis when the city council Hallam’s early productions voted in 1851 to acquire of Shakespeare in 7.5 acres (30,000 m2), Williamsburg, the focus now known as Monroe shifted to Richmond’s Park. Today, Monroe Park antebellum prominence as sits adjacent to the Virginia a main colonial and early Commonwealth University 19th century performance campus and is one of more venue for such celebrated than 40 parks comprising American and English a total of more than 1,500 actors as William Macready, acres (610 ha). Edwin Forrest, and the Several parks are located Booth family. In the 20th along the James River, century, Richmonders’ and the James River Parks love of theater continued System offers bike trails, with many amateur hiking and nature trails, troupes and regular touring and many scenic overlooks professional productions. along the river’s route In the 1960s a small through the city. The trails renaissance or golden age are used as part of the Xterra accompanied the growth East Championship course of professional dinner for both the running and theaters and the fostering mountain biking portions
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a public dog park, and a number of small lakes for small boats, as well as two monuments, Buddha house, and an amphitheatre. Prominently featured in the park is the World War I Memorial Carillon, built in 1926 as a memorial to those that died in the war. Maymont, located adjacent to Byrd Park, is a 100-acre (40 ha) Victorian estate with a museum, formal gardens, native wildlife exhibits, nature center, carriage collection, and children’s farm. Other parks in the city include Joseph Bryan Park Azalea Garden, Forest Hill Park (former site of the Forest Hill Amusement Park), Chimborazo Park (site of the National Battlefield Headquarters), among others.
There are also parks on two major islands in the river: Belle Isle and Brown’s Island. Belle Isle, at various former times a Powhatan fishing village, colonialera horse race track, and Civil War prison camp, is the larger of the two, and contains many bike trails as well as a small cliff that is used for rock climbing instruction. One can walk the island and still see many of the remains of the Civil War prison camp, such as an arms storage room and a gun emplacement that was used to quell prisoner riots. Brown’s Island is a smaller island and a popular venue of a large number of free outdoor concerts and festivals in the spring and summer, such as the weekly Friday Cheers concert series or The James River itself the James River Beer and through Richmond is Seafood Festival. renowned as one of the Two other major parks in best in the country for the city along the river are urban white-water rafting/ Byrd Park and Maymont, c a n o e i n g / k a y a k i n g . located near the fan district. Several rafting companies Byrd Park features a one offer complete services. mile (1.6 km) running There are also several easily track, with exercise stops, accessed riverside areas World Views Guides
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within the city limits for rock-hopping, swimming, and picnicking. Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is located adjacent to the city in Henrico County. Founded in 1984, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is located on 80 acres (320,000 m2) and features a glass conservatory, a rose garden, a healing garden, and an accessible-to-all children’s garden. The Garden is a public place for the display and scientific study of plants. Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is one of only two independent public botanical gardens in Virginia and is designated a state botanical garden. Several theme parks are also located near the city, including Kings Dominion to the north, and Busch Gardens to the east, near Williamsburg.
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Fort Lee, in Prince George County, Virginia, United States, is a United States Army post and headquarters of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)/ Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE), the U.S. Army Quartermaster School, the U.S. Army Ordnance School, The U.S. Army Transportation School, the Army Logistics University (ALU), Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), and the U.S. Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA). Fort Lee also hosts two Army museums, the U.S. Army Quartermaster Museum and the U.S. Army Women’s Museum. The Army’s Ordnance Museum has plans to establish a collection preservation site at Fort Lee. The fort is named for
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Confederate General Lee was taken over by the Robert E. Lee. Commonwealth of Virginia Fort Lee is also a census- and designated a game designated place (CDP), preserve. Later, portions of with population 3393 at the land were incorporated into the National Military the 2010 census. Park of Petersburg. 1. World War I In 1920 Camp Lee was Just 18 days after a state active, as the US 1920 of war with Germany was Census showed many declared, the first Camp soldiers still stationed there. Lee was selected as a state mobilization camp and 2. World War II later became a division training camp. In October 1940, the War In June 1917, building Department ordered the began and within sixty construction of another days some 14,000 men Camp Lee on the site of were on the installation. the earlier installation. Built as rapidly as the When construction first, construction was work ended, there were still ongoing when accommodations for the Quartermaster 60,335 men. On 15 July Replacement Training 1917, the War Department Center (QMRTC) started announced that the camp operation in February would be named in honor 1941. Their number grew of General Robert E. Lee, to 25,000 in 1942, and the most famous of the peaked at 35,000 in 1944. Confederate Civil War Camp Lee was also commanders. the home of a Medical After World War I, Camp
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Replacement Training Center (MRTC), but as the Quartermaster training increased, it was decided to relocate the MRTC at Camp Pickett.
that Camp Lee would be retained as a center for Quartermaster training. Official recognition of its permanent status was obtained in 1950 and the Later, the QMRTC was post was redesignated as Fort Lee. re-designated as an Army Services Forces Training Immediately troops began Center, but it retained its Quartermaster training basic mission of training for the Korean War and Quartermaster personnel. continued for the next While the QMRTC was three years. Fort Lee also getting underway, the had a Women’s Army Quartermaster School was Corps (WAC) training transferred to Camp Lee. center. After the Korean A full program of courses War, progress was made was conducted, including on an ambitious permanent building program. Officer Candidate School. By the end of 1941, Camp Lee was the center of both basic and advanced training of Quartermaster personnel and held this position throughout the war. 3.
Under the twenty-year program, Fort Lee changed from an installation of temporary wooden structures to a modern Army post with permanent brick and cinder block buildings.
Camp Lee to Fort The Quartermaster Lee Training Center, created When World War II ended, to supervise the training of the fate of Camp Lee was in Quartermaster personnel question. In 1946, the War and troop units, brought an Department announced intensification of training
activity within the Quartermaster Corps. As a result, the courses formerly taught at other locations were incorporated in the curriculum of the Quartermaster School. Profound changes were evident at Fort Lee during 1962. The post became a Class 1 military installation under Second United States Army. The Quartermaster School became a part of the Continental Army Command service school system and was also selected to serve as the home of the Quartermaster Corps and Corps Historian. The Second United States Army was inactivated in at Fort Lee 1966 until its reactivation at Fort Gillem, Georgia in 1983. In July 1973, Fort Lee came under the control of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. Fort Lee is the country’s World Views Guides | 2014
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first army post to host a ‘full-size’ statue commemorating the service of women in the Army. The statue was unveiled in 2013. 1. Geography Fort Lee is located at 37°14′06″N 77°19′58″WCoordinates: 37°14′06″N 77°19′58″W
races. Hispanic or Latino was $36,325, and the of any race were 11.4% of median income for a the population. family was $40,197. Males There were 1,401 had a median income of households out of which $27,511 versus $19,459 72.8% had children under for females. The per capita the age of 18 living with income for the CDP was them, 70.0% were married $12,448. About 6.3% of couples living together, families and 7.6% of the 14.3% had a female population were below householder with no the poverty line, including husband present, and 12.7% 8.8% of those under age 18 were non-families. 11.4% and none of those age 65 or over. of all households were
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total made up of individuals and area of 8.4 square miles 0.1% had someone living (21.6 km²), all of it land. alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.27 2. Demographics and the average family size As of the census of 2000, was 3.53. there were 7,269 people, 1,401 households, and In the CDP the population 1,223 families residing in was spread out with 27.9% the CDP. The population under the age of 18, 34.0% density was 870.2 people from 18 to 24, 35.8% from per square mile (336.1/ 25 to 44, 2.1% from 45 to km²). There were 1,445 64, and 0.2% who were 65 housing units at an average years of age or older. The density of 173.0/sq mi median age was 22 years. (66.8/km²). The racial For every 100 females makeup of the CDP was there were 132.2 males. 47.1% African American, For every 100 females age 39.5% White, 0.7% Native 18 and over, there were 143.3 males. American, 2.3% Asian, 0.4% Pacific Islander, The median income for 6.7% from other races, and a household in the CDP 3.4% from two or more World Views Guides
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