Ten years of the Shockoe Examiner.

This month The Shockoe Examiner celebrates 10 years of online blogging on Richmond history. Our first blog entry was posted in June of 2009. One of the original editors was Tyler Potterfield, City of Richmond senior planner, and our friend.Tyler died in 2014 and we still greatly miss him. I think the best way to celebrate our 10 year anniversary is to encourage you to acquire Tyler's book Nonesuch Place: A History of the Richmond Landscape which was published in June of 2009 - the same month this blog went online. Here is how the book is described on Amazon:

Intentionally built on the fall line where the Piedmont uplands meet the Tidewater region, Richmond has always been a city defined by the land. From the time settlers built a city on rugged terrain overlooking the James River, the people have changed the land and been changed by it. Few know this better than T. Tyler Potterfield, a planner with the City of Richmond Department of Community Development. Whether considering the many roles of the "romantic, wild and beautiful" James River through the centuries, describing the rationale for the location of the Virginia State Capitol on Shockoe Hill or relating the struggle to reclaim green space as industrialization and urban growth threatened to remove nature from the city, Potterfield weaves a tale as ordered as the gridded streets of Richmond and just as rich in history.

Visit the Amazon link here to purchase the book (or buy it locally which is what Tyler would have suggested).

Thank you to our readers and blog followers. And remember, we encourage you to comment on our posts. We love hearing what our readers have to say. Thanks again.

- The Editors.