This tour is centralized in the Shockoe Bottom area. Among others, some of the sites seen on this tour are the Edgar Allen Poe Museum, the Holocaust Museum, the site of the 17th St train crash, the Richmond Slavery Reconciliation Statue (one of three statues on three separate continents), the Triple Crossing (the only place in the world where three train tracks cross at the same point), Lumpkins Jail (a slave jail recently excavated, known as the “Devil’s half acre”, and the site of extreme cruelty during the Civil War), the monument to Henry “Box” Brown, and the 17th Street Farmers’ Market. Hear the tragic story of the train still buried underneath 50 feet of rubble in a tunnel where no one survived and where all still remain buried with the train.
Ticket – $75