Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
Brick_Wood_Stone_Land_Water_Measurement - University of Virginia
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<strong>Brick</strong>_<strong>Wood</strong>_<strong>Stone</strong>_<strong>Land</strong>_<strong>Water</strong>_<strong>Measurement</strong><br />
A Richmond merchant managed the difficult and dangerous job <strong>of</strong> loading the heavy marble capitals onboard<br />
the small vessels that would carry them by water from Rockett’s wharf on the James River in Richmond to<br />
Milton, the busy village on the Rivanna River just east <strong>of</strong> Charlottesville near Monticello.<br />
Rockett’s <strong>Land</strong>ing was a major wharf on the James River in Richmond in the vicinity <strong>of</strong> 31st and Mains streets where “various steamers plying between Richmond and Norfolk, Fortress Monroe,<br />
Baltimore, and New York” arrived and departed. Robert Rockett operated a ferry there as early as 1730 and tradition has it that Abe Lincoln walked from Rockett’s to the Davis mansion when he visited<br />
Richmond on 5 April 1865.
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