I’ve been organizing my files over the past week after about a decade of haphazardly storing them in flash drives, an old laptop, an external hard drive, and a cloud backup. In the process, I came across my old college research and realized I never shared some photos of the highway construction process in Jackson Ward. The photo quality is not great, but it’s more than I had when I first set out to do this research so I’m happy to share. The originals are stored for public access at the Library of Virginia off-site archives building in Richmond. I’ve also added these to a permanent page, “The Wheels of Progress,” where previously I only had the series that was most compelling to me at the time. With the current discussions around capping the highway in Jackson Ward and reconnecting the neighborhood, we could consider including an installation with these images to remember the full history of the space.
Central Jackson Ward looking east (from just west of Sixth Mount Zion)
Central Jackson Ward looking east (from a station west of the one above)
Central Jackson Ward looking East (from a station west of the one above)
Central Jackson Ward looking west (from a station near the one above)
Highways and Hallowed Halls 