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Tobacco Row, Richmond

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The area was vacated by the tobacco companies by the late 1980s. Following completion of Richmond's James River Flood Wall in 1995, led by Richmond developer
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Beginning in the 18th century, many growers and shippers of Virginia's major cash-crop of
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In the mid-2010s, the neighborhood was introduced to the extreme western portion of the
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maintained facilities there, as well as directly across the river at
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is a collection of tobacco warehouses and cigarette factories in
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Historic Richmond Foundation - Historic Areas: Tobacco Row
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Tobacco Row

37°31′46.5″N 77°25′27.4″W / 37.529583°N 77.424278°W / 37.529583; -77.424278
Richmond, Virginia
James River and Kanawha Canal
head of navigation
James River
tobacco
Manchester
American Civil War
Libby Prison
Castle Thunder
Confederate
WRVA
Larus and Brother Company
William H. Abeloff
loft apartments

Downtown Richmond
Shockoe Bottom
Shockoe Slip
River District
Belle Isle
Monroe Ward
Manchester
Jackson Ward
Court End
Tobacco Row
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Virginia Holocaust Museum

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