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Story Time In the LibraryTue Jul 8 10:00 am
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Real Estate Services: If you are looking buy or sell residential real estate in or around the Oregon Hill area contact Wey McLeod w/ Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc. @ 804-387-7772 or email him at Wey@LNF.com for your complimentary consultation.
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Helping seniors downsize and move since 1998, More Than Moving For Seniors is a full-service senior move management company. We sort, pack, move, unpack, set up the new home and clear out houses. Call 232-6480 or Susan@MoreThanMovingInc.com
Need estate sale services or have items to consign? Since 1999, Susan's Selections has conducted estate sales. Our consignment shop at 8008 Staples Mill Rd is open Thurs & Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 9 am-4pm, Sun 1-4pm. Call 232-6480 or Roy@SusansSelections.com.
The Quaker/abolitionist history in Oregon Hill deserves more recognition. It gets short shift in comparison to some other Richmond history.
The linear/greenway park that goes down Belvidere is named after Parsons and the park at Laurel and Albemarle is named after another Oregon Hill Quaker/abolitionist, Pleasants.
When VCU moved the Jacob House, another historic Quaker house, from its original location near Main St., despite protests from neighborhood and community activists, a secret basement room was found which was probably Underground Railroad.
Trani promptly had the discovery paved over for his Engineering School parking lot.
The Jacob House is now on Cary Street. To his credit the developer Stephen Salomonsky Jr. gave it back to the Quaker community who then donated it to the Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council.
Corrections.
The Jacob house was never on Main Street, it has always been on Cary. It was moved across the street to its present location on Cary in 1995.
The developer never gave the building to the Quaker community. The deed signed/transferred from S. Salomonsky’s corporation to the Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council.
Maura, thanks for the corrections. I wrote the above comment in haste and should have been more accurate.
I was trying to make it clear that the Jacob House was originally north of where it is now.
http://www.richmondfriends.org/history/JHOut/index.htm
A community advisory committee that included Quaker members suggested that Salomonsky give it to OHHIC.
http://www.richmondfriends.org/History/JacobHouseDedication.htm
Here’s more from http://www.richmondfriends.org
1802 Quaker petition against slavery presented to the Virginia legislature. Among those signing this petition are Samuel Parsons (the father of Samuel Pleasants Parsons, whose house survives at 601 Spring Street in Oregon Hill) and James Ladd (the uncle of Elizabeth Ladd, who married Samuel Pleasants Parsons).