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There was no place so strong, so pleasant, and delightful in Virginia, for which we called it None-such. So wrote Captain John Smith about the site he chose in 1609 when he established the first English settlement near the falls of the James River. It stood a few miles south until 1610. William Byrd I founded the second settlement when he patented land here in 1676. He soon built a fortified community, trading post, and warehouses, just across the river near the mouth of Goode Creek. In 1737 his son, William Byrd II, laid out richmond -- which he named for Richmond upon Thames, now a borough of London -- here in the Shockoe valley.
Department of Historic Resources 1997
Franklin Street between 17th and 18th Streets Richmond City Virginia.
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