Name: American Civil War Museum- White House of the Confederacy
Address: 1201 East Clay Street, Richmond, VA, 23219

Built in 1818, this National Historic Landmark served as the White House of the Confederacy during the war. Guided tours of the restored house–the elegant public rooms as well as the private living quarters–explore the lives of the people who lived and worked there. Visitors will have the opportunity to walk through the home with a trained ACWM guide and take pictures while experiencing what life was like for those who lived and worked at the White House of the Confederacy. Tours of the White House of the Confederacy last 45 minutes. White House tour capacity will be at 15 visitors per tour and include the two-floor full tour.

American Civil War Museum- White House of the Confederacy

We’re a community of runners, hikers, bikers and ballplayers. We’re an outdoor playground, designed by Mother Nature, with class III and IV rapids running right through our downtown. A 52-mile bike trail runs along the James. The Richmond Marathon and Ukrop’s 10k are huge celebrations, and the whole region comes out to cheer on our local teams. In fact, we’re so sports-minded that the Washington Redskins have their training camp right in the center of the city. Add to that awesome hotels, beautiful venues, attractions, art, craft beer, more than 900 restaurants and a convenient location, and you’ve got a top choice for your next sports event. Welcome to RVA!

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Built in 1818, this National Historic Landmark served as the White House of the Confederacy during the war. Guided tours of the restored house–the elegant public rooms as well as the private living quarters–explore the lives of the people who lived and worked there. Visitors will have the opportunity to walk through the home with a trained ACWM guide and take pictures while experiencing what life was like for those who lived and worked at the White House of the Confederacy. Tours of the White House of the Confederacy last 45 minutes. White House tour capacity will be at 18 visitors per tour and include the two-floor full tour.

Homestyle cooking using seasonal, local and fresh ingredients.

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The Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground is located at 1554 E. Broad Street in the historic Shockoe Bottom neighborhood, which contains Richmond's original 32-block footprint laid out by William Mayo in 1737. Known only as a "Burial Ground for Negroes" on an 1809 surveyor's map of Richmond, the site was active as the city's first municipal cemetery for enslaved and free people of color from 1799 to 1816. After 1804, the site housed the city gallows, which were moved there from the city's former "usual place" of execution at Gallows Hill near Canal and 1st Street. The site is currently built over and no longer visible. Since its rediscovery in the 1990s, it was widely believed that many of the members of the slave revolt of 1800, including the principal organizer, 24-year-old enslaved blacksmith Gabriel (known at the time as "General Gabriel"), were executed at the Shockoe Bottom site. However, subsequent historical research has clarified this assumption. Gabriel was executed at Gallows Hill at Canal St. and 1st St. on October 10, 1800, before the gallows were relocated to Shockoe Bottom. His likely burial site was near the execution location on Cary Street at the former Richmond Baptist Church burying ground, as stated by Dr. John Dove in the April 29, 1871, Richmond Daily Dispatch (that site is also no longer visible). The process of reclaiming and honoring the history of these sites began in earnest on October 10, 2004, with the placement of the "Gabriel's Execution" historic highway marker near the 15th and 16th streets overpass on E. Broad Street by the Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality. This was followed by the formation of the Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project and committee on December 10 to further the preservation and recognition of Richmond's Black history in Shockoe Bottom. A second historic highway marker for the Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground, sponsored by DHR, was unveiled on October 10, 2024. The original "Gabriel's Execution" historic marker is currently in the process of being corrected and replaced to reflect the accurate location of Gabriel's execution. The Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground is one of two African Burial Grounds in the city of Richmond; the other is the Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground at 1305 N 5th St., which was opened as its replacement in 1816 and to which the gallows were later moved.

Shockoe Bottom African Burial Ground

A collective café and lounge geared toward “creatives” and community-oriented people. The front half of the Urban Hang Suite space is home to a "social café," a high-energy area that can seat 15 people, meant for quick in-and-out visits, commonly accompanied by live music or a DJ.

Urban Hang Suite

Lumpkin's Jail, also known as "the Devil's half acre", was a holding facility, or slave jail, located just three blocks from the state capitol building. More than five dozen firms traded in enslaved human beings within blocks of Richmond's Wall Street (now 15th Street) between 14th and 18th Streets between the 1830s and the end of the American Civil War. It's final and most notorious owner, Robert Lumpkin, bought and sold slaves throughout the South for well over twenty years, and Lumpkin's Jail became Richmond's largest slave-holding facility. Over the twenty years the Lumpkin Jail was in operation, thousands of slaves passed through the complex. The most famous inmate was Anthony Burns, who had escaped slavery in Virginia, but was arrested in Boston and tried under the Fugitive Slave Law. Though many lobbied for his release, he was sent back to Lumpkin's Jail and held for four more months until abolitionists raised sufficient funds to buy his freedom. Once freed, he returned to the North and became a pastor.

Lumpkin's Jail

Built circa 1784 by Adam Craig, a prominent court clerk and father of Jane Stith Craig Stanard, whom legend holds inspired Edgar Allan Poe's tribute “To Helen.”

Adam Craig House

Specialty coffee thoughtfully-sourced, carefully-roasted and skillfully-prepared with love in Richmond.

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Starr Foster Dance Project

Monumental Church was designed by Robert Mills, America’s first native born architect. It was on this site that the Virginia Ratifying Convention was held for three weeks in June, 1788. Constructed in 1814, the structure is a memorial to the 72 individuals that died in the Richmond Theater Fire of 1811. Monumental Church was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark in 1969. It resides in Richmond’s historic Court End, slightly north of Shockoe Slip and west of Church Hill.

Monumental Church

Strange Richmond Tours offers Richmond's best-rated walking tours and ghost tours, led by professional historians and expert storytellers. Discover 400 years of Virginia history on the daily Capitol Square Tour, explore Hollywood Cemetery's 135-acre arboretum and presidential gravesites, or hunt vampires on Richmond's premier Haunted History Tour through Shockoe Bottom. Small-group public tours run daily, with private Church Hill architecture walks, Edgar Allan Poe city tours, and Private Cemetery experiences available by reservation. Authentic local perspectives in the heart of RVA.

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