Richmond: Commonwealth Capital on the James
Richmond has been the capital of Virginia since 1780, when the seat of government was moved inland from Williamsburg during the Revolutionary War. From 1861 to 1865 it also served as the capital of the Confederacy, and the wartime use of the city left a long physical and political imprint. Monument Avenue, the grand residential boulevard running west from downtown, carried Confederate statues of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and J.E.B. Stuart for more than a century before the monuments were removed during and after the summer of 2020. The Arthur Ashe statue, added in 1996, remains.
The James River cuts through the city on a rocky path that historically stopped oceangoing commerce at Richmond's fall line. Today the Class III and IV rapids within the city limits make Richmond the only major American city with runnable whitewater inside its downtown. Belle Isle and Brown's Island in the middle of the river are connected to the banks by pedestrian bridges and form part of the James River Park System.
The Fortune 500 has several Richmond headquarters: Altria Group (parent of Philip Morris USA), Dominion Energy, CarMax, and Genworth Financial. Capital One's credit card operations also concentrate in the area. Virginia Commonwealth University spans much of the central city with an undergraduate campus, a medical campus, and the nationally ranked VCUarts program, and the university employs over 20,000 people in the metro area.
Escortservice.com's Richmond listings point to the escort websites active in the area. Its function ends at listing. Escortservice.com never arranges meetings, confirms licensing, or intervenes in transactions. The site is restricted to users aged 21 and over.
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Richmond has been the capital of Virginia since 1780, when the seat of government was moved inland from Williamsburg during the Revolutionary War. From 1861 to 1865 it also served as the capital of the Confederacy, and the wartime use of the city left a long physical and political imprint. Monument Avenue, the grand residential boulevard running west from downtown, carried Confederate statues of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, and J.E.B. Stuart for more than a century before the monuments were removed during and after the summer of 2020. The Arthur Ashe statue, added in 1996, remains.
The James River cuts through the city on a rocky path that historically stopped oceangoing commerce at Richmond's fall line. Today the Class III and IV rapids within the city limits make Richmond the only major American city with runnable whitewater inside its downtown. Belle Isle and Brown's Island in the middle of the river are connected to the banks by pedestrian bridges and form part of the James River Park System.
The Fortune 500 has several Richmond headquarters: Altria Group (parent of Philip Morris USA), Dominion Energy, CarMax, and Genworth Financial. Capital One's credit card operations also concentrate in the area. Virginia Commonwealth University spans much of the central city with an undergraduate campus, a medical campus, and the nationally ranked VCUarts program, and the university employs over 20,000 people in the metro area.
Escortservice.com's Richmond listings point to the escort websites active in the area. Its function ends at listing. Escortservice.com never arranges meetings, confirms licensing, or intervenes in transactions. The site is restricted to users aged 21 and over.
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