Anything not Monument Avenue.

Jackson Ward was one of a few “Black Wall Streets”. Guess where it was decided to put interstates 95/64 right through town.

It was also decided to put the downtown expressway 195 right through Oregon Hill. The Hill was (mostly still is) a white only poor neighborhood. Wiped out about 1/2 of it. Residents were from Appalachia brought in to work at Tredegar Iron Works.

Irish, Welsh and Scottish immigrants who worked there for years during the factory's operation. A German ancestor from Philadelphia came to work at Tredegar in Richmond post- Civil War in the 1870s and was employed there for many years.

I found no references to labor from Appalachia at the factory in a number of publications that I researched. What is the source for Appalachian employees at Tredegar and as residents of Richmond? For generations my family has lived in Richmond, Va. and a number of other US states.

Old girlfriend. She did a study on it and that’s what she told me. My stepfather, who grew up on the Hill, has told me the same.