Photographs of old Fulton
I read Selden Richardson’s Built by Blacks in late 2006. This sent me off to find out if his descriptions of Evergreen Cemetery were accurate, to see it for myself: Evergreen is everything that he...
View ArticleThe eradication of old Fulton
wtvr’s Fulton neighborhood once completely destroyed, future remains to be seen is an amazing 5-minute telling of the eradication of old Fulton: Generations of families once called the Fulton...
View ArticleThe streets of old Fulton
Photographs of old Fulton, first posted in 2010, got passed around again recently prompting a reader to send in this amazing set of undated photos of old Fulton. It’s still difficult to comprehend that...
View ArticlePlacing old Fulton
Cameron has taken the photos from last week’s Streets of old Fulton and mapped where the images were taken. This is neat! Click on any of the markers below to get a look or click here to see it bigger.
View ArticleOld Fulton remembered
Greg McQuade from WTVR/CBS 6 has a great collection of photos of old Fulton, including this snapshot of the kindergarten graduation at Bethlehem Center Graduation in 1964.
View ArticleHistoric Fulton: Past, Present & Future
The Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods presents the 6th Annual Susan Carter Williams Memorial Seminar, Historic Fulton: Past, Present & Future on May 15, 2010 from 11AM-2PM at the...
View ArticleFulton Memorial Park coming this spring
Thanks to the tenacious leadership of Spencer Jones of the Legacy Committee of the Greater Fulton Futures Initiative and thanks to the City of Richmond Department of Parks & Recreation, the history...
View ArticleThe last house of old Fulton
VIEW LARGER Celeste sent in this pinhole photo of “the last house in Fulton” (700-704 Denny Street), from sometime between 1984 and 1989 or so. The houses were demolished in the late 1980s after a long...
View ArticleOld Fulton
PHOTO: Fulton from Chimborazo (1890s)(Valentine) Following City Council’s vote last night to put $23 million to the Stone Brewery project, it seems opportune to look back at the community that was...
View ArticleSeeking photographs and images for a book on Fulton
Steven Reiss is in the beginning staged of putting together a book on the history of Fulton to potentially be published in early 2017. He describes the book as “a visual history of the birthplace of...
View ArticleVCU now streaming Historic Fulton Oral History Project
Church Hill RVA tips us to the Historic Fulton Oral History Project: VCU Libraries has put the fantastically interesting Historic Fulton Oral History Project online and is streaming all 17 interviews....
View ArticleDigging into urban renewal in Fulton
PHOTO BY Ellen Heberling Ellen Heberling posted a piece at RVA Archaeology on the potential of archaeology work on Fulton to share more on the urban renewal period: During the early 1970s, many...
View ArticleGrubbs Super Market (1980)
From the Valentine, via Richmond Newspapers: Black and white photograph of the exterior of Grubbs Super Market in the Fulton neighborhood of Richmond on Williamsburg Road; image shows the front of the...
View ArticleHistoric photos of Richmond from the New York Public Library
Via Melissa on the CHPN Facebook: “The New York Public Library Digital Collections just released over 180,000 photos for public use” Here is St.John’s circa 1861-1865. There are 3,647 results for...
View ArticleListen for the story of old Fulton on Virginia Currents Radio
PHOTO: Baker Street via the Cook Collection at The Valentine WCVE’s Catherine Komp says: Mark your calendars for some slow journalism. The next two weeks of Virginia Currents Radio (7/21 and 7/28)...
View ArticleJames River (1936)
VIEW LARGER From @vintage_richmond on Instagram: An aerial view of Richmond, Virginia from above Fulton Hill after “The Saint Patricks Day Flood” of March 1936. The only great flood in Richmond...
View ArticleHistoric Fulton’s commercial strip (undated)
Another piece of old Fulton… “Historic Fulton’s Commercial Strip” From the Greater Fulton Hill Civic Association’s Spring 2017 Newsletter via the City of Richmond, Dept. of Public Works. Can anyone...
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