Fulton Hill

Fulton Hill

Fulton Hill is a neighborhood located in the East End of Richmond, Virginia. The name is used for the area stretching from Gillies Creek to the Richmond city limits, often including Fulton Bottom and Montrose Heights. The zip code is 23231.

History

Tradition holds that Christopher Newport and John Smith first met with Parahunt, Powhatan's son, in May of 1607 at this point. In the early 18th century, a ferry was established from a property at the bottom owned by Robert Rocketts to connect the north and south sides of the James River. A neighborhood of low-slung, single-story homes emerged here after the Civil War, and the area was annexed by Richmond from Henrico County in 1905.By the 1960s, the area at the base of the hill bordering Gilies Creek, known as "Fulton Bottom," was mostly home to low and middle income African Americans. The housing stock was regarded as rather shabby, and after severe flood damage in the early 1970s, the entire Fulton Bottom community was completely demolished, marking Richmond's only neighborhood-wide urban renewal slum clearance. [cite book | last = Tyler-McGraw | first = Marie | title = At the falls: Richmond, Virginia, and its people | publisher = University of North Carolina Press | location = Chapel Hill | date = 1994 | pages = pp. 302-304 | isbn = 0-8078-4476-4 ]

Residents were promised rehabilitation and new construction, but the space once occupied by Fulton laid empty for a full decade before construction of moderate-income housing began. Many regard the failure to replace the razed housing in Fulton as one of the central failures of the city's urban renewal plans.

Fulton Hill Today

The area above the floodplain is an intact urban neighborhood, with a working class character and population. The area is seeing renovation and rehabilitation on the upswing after years of neglect, thanks in large part to dedicated community action to tackle criminal activity, and also to rising property prices in other parts of the city.

Fulton Hill has a large stock of early 20th century vernacular homes, especially one and one and a half story bungalows but also including a number of increasingly trendy Sears Catalog homes and several semi-detached Federal rows that date to the earlier years of settlement.

The neighborhood is also home to Richmond National Cemetery, a veteran's cemetery dating to the Civil War with 9,322 interments. An album by the band Alabama Thunderpussy is named "Fulton Hill" after the community.

External links

* [http://www.historicrichmond.com/ Historic Richmond Foundation]
* [http://www.ci.richmond.va.us/departments/presssecretary/neighborhoodguide/eastend.aspx#fulton Richmond Neighborhoods Guide]
* [http://www.nrccafe.org/ The Neighborhood Resource Center of Greater Fulton Hill]
* [http://www.greaterfultonnews.org/ Greater Fulton News]

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