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Forest Hill Park Lake Restoration One Step Closer

According to an email from Larry Miller of the Richmond Parks and Recreation Department the long awaited work to restore Forest Hill Park should begin mid to late March. Pre-construction meetings will be occurring over the next few weeks and in a perfect world we should all be enjoying a restored Forest Hill Park lake [...]

March 5, 2009 at 5:58 am
By Richard.H
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Richmond Past: Forest Hill Amusement Park

The land that we know as Forest Hill Park was purchased by the Richmond & Manchester Railway Co. in 1890. This was part of a general movement of the various Richmond trolley companies to spread out from the city core and service the housing developments the trolley companies had built outside of the city. The [...]

January 27, 2009 at 9:55 am
By Richard.H
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then&now on Semmes Avenue

November 23, 2008 at 9:09 am
By john_m
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Forest Hill Park 1956

November 19, 2008 at 5:00 am
By john_m
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