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Daniel Payne


A relic of Richmond’s vanished ‘most historic’ neighborhood can be found…on the Northern Neck?

A relic of Richmond’s vanished ‘most historic’ neighborhood can be found…on the Northern Neck?


Court End used to boast countless small homes, businesses and even some mansions of the city’s elite.
By Daniel Payne

Richmond history: Before the Fall Line Trail, there was the Ashland Electric Railway


Part of the path will run alongside a long-vanished trolley railway, one that used to carry passengers from Broad Street to downtown Ashland every hour.
By Daniel Payne
Richmond history: Before the Fall Line Trail, there was the Ashland Electric Railway
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