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[[File:Edgeworth Building.jpg|thumb|Edgeworth Building]]
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  | location= Roughly bounded by Dock, 15th, Clay, Franklin, and Peach Sts., [[Richmond, Virginia]]
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  | architecture = Mid 19th Century Revival, Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian
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'''Tobacco Row''' is a collection of tobacco warehouses and cigarette factories in [[Richmond, Virginia]] adjacent to the [[James River and Kanawha Canal]] near its eastern terminus at the [[head of navigation]] of the [[James River (Virginia)|James River]].

==History==
Beginning in the 18th century, many growers and shippers of Virginia's major cash-crop of [[tobacco]] maintained facilities there, as well as directly across the river at [[Manchester, Virginia|Manchester]]. Substantial multi-story brick buildings were constructed to protect the contents from loss due to fire.

During the [[American Civil War]] (1861–1865), Tobacco Row was the site of infamous [[Libby Prison]] and nearby [[Castle Thunder (prison)|Castle Thunder]], detention facilities of the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] government.

In 1925, [[WRVA (AM)|WRVA]] radio, owned by [[Larus and Brother Company]], went on the air, broadcasting from a studio located in a corner of their House of Edgeworth warehouse, with a tower mounted on the roof of the building.

==Adaptive Reuse==
The area was vacated by the tobacco companies by the late 1980s. Following completion of Richmond's James River Flood Wall in 1995, led by Richmond developer [[William H. Abeloff]], many of the old warehouses of Tobacco Row were modernized and converted into developments of [[loft apartment]]s, condominiums, offices, and retail space along part of the restored canal system. 
{{Downtown Richmond}} One of the warehouses is home to the [[Virginia Holocaust Museum]].

In the mid 2010s, the neighborhood was introduced to the extreme western portion of the [[Virginia Capital Trail]].

==See also==
* [[Neighborhoods of Richmond, Virginia]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.historicrichmond.com/tobaccorow.html Historic Richmond Foundation - Historic Areas: Tobacco Row]
* [http://riverdistrictnews.com River District News]
* [http://www.theriverlofts.com/templates/template_fcra/default2.asp?w=riverloftsattobaccorow River Lofts at Tobacco Row]
{{geographic location
| title     = '''Nearby Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia'''
| Center    = Tobacco Row
| North     = [[Church Hill, Richmond, Virginia|Church Hill]]
| Northeast = [[Libby Hill, Richmond|Libby Hill]]
| East      = [[Fulton Hill]]
| Southeast = [[Rocketts Landing]]
| South     = The [[James River]]
| Southwest = 
| West      = [[Shockoe Bottom]]
| Northwest = 
}}
{{Richmond, Virginia neighborhoods}}
[[Category:Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia]]
[[Category:James River (Virginia)]]
[[Category:Warehouse districts of the United States]]
[[Category:Economy of Richmond, Virginia]]
[[Category:History of Richmond, Virginia]]
[[Category:Tobacco buildings in the United States]]