No worries this is just a log not an Alligator! and if you look closely and enlarge the shot you can even see some Turtles.
This area of Richmond known as Tobacco Row has been the site of Tobacco warehouses and manufacturing since the 1600's. These buildings you see were built between 1886-1929.
Powhatan, paramount chief of the Algonquian-speaking Indians of Virginia's coastal plain, was born in a town east of here. Powhatan's supremacy in this region provided order and protection for the tribes in his chiefdom. Virginia's Indians lived in town, some protected by wooded palisades, and surrounded by fields were foraging for food north of the settlement, Captain Johns Smith was captured and brought before Powhatan at his center of power on the York River. Smith later claimed that Pocahontas, Powhatan's favorite daughter, intervened to save Smith. Powhatan "adopted" Smith into the chiefdom and allowed him to return to Jamestown.
This is a Model of Libby Prison. It was one of the most notorious Prisons of the Civil War. It housed mostly Union Officers. The conditions of the Prisons were bad to say the least, and were chronicled by several inmates including Robert Sneden, a Union Solider who wrote that the prisoner's "walk up and down, ragged, shoeless, and crawling with vermin." It is estimated that around 40,000 to 50,000 prisoner's of war came through Libby. On February 1864 more than a hundred prisoners escaped from Libby Prison by digging tunnel to an adjoining warehouse. Forty eight were recaptured, two men drowned, and fifty two were able to reach Union lines.
The Richmond flood wall was the first project of its kind built under the cost sharing provision of the Water Resource Act of 1986, in partnership between many talented employees of the US Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District and the City of Richmond. Was dedicated on October 21, 1994, and protects all 750 acres of flood prone land.
This is to show how high water has actually gotten. The Highest was in 1771, Then Hurricane Agnes in 1972, Juan in 1985, and Camille in 1969.
Listening to the Train go by.
The Train.
Yet another train, we must have seen or heard five or six trains during our walk.
The Worlds only Triple Crossing.
When Richmond fell so did the Confederate cause. Exactly one week after Jefferson Davis fled the city, General Lee surrendered at Appomattox. Five days day later President Lincoln was assassinated. This is the reminents of the Mayo bridge that the Confederate Army retreated over then burnt as the Union were taking over Richmond. Most of Richmond was set on fire (mostly factories, and army quarters) by the Confederate Army and aided by the people of Richmond. A Confederate Nurse was noted saying: "Better she burn to ashes than, give one once of aide to the enemy". While on our walk there was this bridge that had quotes of people involved in the Civil War. Here are our favorites:
"You are free-free as air. . . you can cast off the name of slave and trample upon it" President Abraham Lincoln.
"I know that I am free, for I have seen father Abraham" An African American woman in the crowd surrounding Lincoln at Capitol Square.
"Thank God I lived to see this day" Abraham Lincoln. To me this is profound, because Lincoln was killed shortly after.
A baby Turtle was saw on our way back to the Truck.
After dinner was took Keira to Huguenot Park. It is a pretty large park with walking trails some soccer fields, tennis courts, and even a playground for the kids. These are some pretty fall
leaves we saw as we were entering the trail.
A tree we saw on the trail. . . looks like it wants to sit down eh?
Having fun on the "Swirly" Slide.
Well we wanted to get some video of her inching her way down the "Swirly" Slide saying "weeee!" but that was last time and this time she decided that the bells would be more fun. LOL!
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