Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, Richmond

#100 among attractions in Richmond

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge carries the Pocahontas Parkway, signed as State Route 895, across the James River between the independent city of Richmond and Henrico County. Crossing the southernmost extremity of Richmond, it provides a connection between Henrico and the southern end of Chippenham Parkway near U.S. Route 1 in Chesterfield County, Virginia. ()

Coordinates: 37°26'32"N, 77°25'28"W

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Richmond National Battlefield Park, Richmond National Cemetery, Clarke–Palmore House, Maury Street Marker.

3 miE
Park
Richmond National Battlefield Park, Richmond
76 min walk • The Richmond National Battlefield Park commemorates 13 American Civil War sites around Richmond, Virginia, which served as the capital of the Confederate States of America for most of the war.
5.3 miN
Cemetery
Richmond National Cemetery, Richmond
135 min walk • Richmond National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery three miles east of Richmond in Henrico County, Virginia. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 9.7 acres, and as of 2021 had more than 11,000 interments.
4.5 miN
Museum, History museum
Clarke–Palmore House, Richmond
114 min walk • The Clarke–Palmore House, also known as Clarke Home, was built as a brick farmhouse in 1819 and expanded in 1855. Its first floor level, built in 1819, is described as being American bond brickwork of 3 to 5 stretcher courses between each header course.
5 miN
Memorial
Maury Street Marker, Richmond
129 min walk • Maury Street Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway is a historic route marker located on U.S. Route 1, or Jefferson Davis Highway, in Richmond, Virginia. It was erected in 1935, by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is one of 16 erected in Virginia along the Jefferson Davis Highway between 1927 and 1947.
3.3 miE
Cemetery
Fort Harrison National Cemetery, Richmond
85 min walk • Fort Harrison National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located seven miles south of the city of Richmond, in Henrico County, Virginia.
4.4 miN
Memorial
Elliott Grays Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway, Richmond
112 min walk • Elliott Grays Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway is a historic route marker located on U.S. Route 1, or Jefferson Davis Highway, in Richmond, Virginia. It was erected in 1929, by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is one of 16 erected in Virginia along the Jefferson Davis Highway between 1927 and 1947.
3.8 miN
Greek Revival architecture
Tree Hill, Richmond
97 min walk • Tree Hill near Richmond, Virginia, in Henrico County, Virginia, is a Greek Revival style plantation house overlooking the James River about two miles east of downtown Richmond near the intersection of the historic Osborne Turnpike and New Market Road.
5.1 miN
Neighbourhood
Rocketts Landing, Richmond
132 min walk • Rockett's Landing is a new urbanist neighborhood in southeastern Richmond, Virginia on the border of Henrico County, Virginia and the north bank of the James River.
5.1 miN
Neighbourhood
Shed Town, Richmond
130 min walk • Shed Town is a neighborhood in the East End that overlaps Church Hill and Union Hill, Richmond, Virginia.
5.1 miN
Neighbourhood
Sauer's Gardens, Richmond
130 min walk • Sauer's Garden is a neighborhood in the West End of Richmond, Virginia. The neighborhood began development in the 1920s, and now contains about 300 homes.
5.3 miN
Colonial revival architecture
Robert Fulton School, Richmond
135 min walk • The Robert Fulton School is a historic school building at 1000-1012 Carlisle Avenue in the Fulton Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. It is a two-story T-shaped structure, built with a frame of concrete and steel and finished in brick.