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Libby Hill Park

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Libby Hill Park is located in historic Church Hill district. In the video at left, learn more about Church Hill, located in the Richmond’s East End. Overlooking downtown Richmond, Shockoe Slip and Shockoe Bottom, Church Hill is the oldest intact neighborhood in the city and contains the most antebellum structures in Richmond. SLIDESHOW

For more information on historic tours of Church Hill with the Valentine Richmond History Center, see http://www.richmondhistorycenter.com

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Richmond Times-Dispatch Archives
Published: October 2, 2008

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Libby Hill Park, 29th Street and Libby Terrace in Church Hill. Home of Soldiers and Sailors Monument, a 100-foot memorial honoring Confederate enlisted men erected in 1894 with statue on a large Corinthian column.

Libby Hill Park is located in historic Church Hill district, east of downtown Richmond. The home of St. John’s Episcopal Church. Also, several hundred houses in the area restored since 1956.

Libby Hill is also known to be the location from where William Byrd II made the comparison between this area of the world that has come to be known as Richmond with Richmond on the Thames, a village near London, England.

Info: 646-7000.www.ci.richmond.va.us/departments/parks/