Hat Rock

On October 19, 1805, the Lewis and Clark Expedition's first leg of their canoe voyage down the Columbia River on the western side of the Rocky Mountains took them “S.W. 14 miles to a rock... resembling a hat.” Such a ...

Rocketts Landing and Wharf / Confederate Navy Yard / Powhatan’s

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Rocketts Landing and Wharf

Rocketts is the river frontage and community named for Robert Rockett, who operated a ferry across the James River beginning in the 1730s. Over the years, tenant laborers and merchants filled the floodplain with clusters of ...