Sorry, my juxtaposition. It was a just off the north shore of the James and became part of the NORTH shore. It is on the 1809/10 Map of Richmond east of 14th Street. Chappel's Island is the first, then Wildwilt's Fishery. They're shown clearly separated from the mainland and are later part of it due to infilling in between.
Lyle
On Aug 25, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Lyn Lanier <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Lyle,
> I am confused did wildwilt's Island did it form north of 14th St. and move
> south or did it form south and move east to 14th st.? What range of dates
> are involved? thanks
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry, the auto-infill on my email has led to some rather interesting
>> responses. The brain-drain of tromping through a high-density canebrake
>> rattlesnake habitat on Wednesday plus an infestation of tiny seed ticks and
>> other standard travails had led to some interesting typos which I will
>> blame on auto-infill and exclude entirely checking the email for errors
>> before hitting send;)
>>
>> Paragraph the second should read "adjacent landowners" rather than advent
>> landowners.
>>
>> Paragraph the third should read "subterranean sewage plant was on 14th
>> Street" or at least that seems most likely.
>>
>> Lyle Browning, RPA
>>
>>
>> On Aug 22, 2014, at 6:02 PM, Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The amazing name of Wildwilt's Island appears in various maps until it
>> is subsumed onto the north shore and becomes part of the foreshore of the
>> south bank of the James River. The genesis of Wildwilt's domain is
>> interesting. Various maps of Richmond have names for some of the islands.
>> I've been looking at the patents and the descriptions are precise, but
>> unfortunately "float" in terms of which landforms they are now, assuming
>> that it is currently possible to isolate landform descriptions.
>>>
>>> Islands in the James were definitely subject to the varies of flooding
>> and appeared and disappeared as signifiant landforms. Ive managed to
>> isolate about half of my list and after platting them out, MAYBE I will be
>> able to plonk them on a map more or less accurately by reference to advent
>> landowners.
>>>
>>> The gap between the mainland and Wildwilt's appears to have been
>> infilled with massive amounts of demolition/destruction debris from the
>> 1865 evaluation fire. That area appears to have been obliterated in the
>> 1980's by construction of the subterranean sewage plant was tot 14th Street.
>>>
>>> Notice that there are a lot of ambiguities in my statements. This is
>> because while they are based upon best guess estimates, they are still
>> estimates.
>>>
>>> Lyle Browning, RPA
>>>
>>> On Aug 22, 2014, at 10:45 AM, "Alyson L. Taylor-White" <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello there - in Samuel Mordecai's Richmond in By-Gone Days he
>> described Widewilt Island in the James River at Richmond.
>>>> It was created after a big freeze created what was described as a
>> floating island.
>>>> Widewilt "drove stakes all round his slippery domain, and wattled them
>> so that future freshets might add further deposits; and thus Widesilt's
>> Island became a possession of some value as a fishery and sand mart. The
>> island remained above water longer than its founder did above ground; but a
>> similar accident to that which formed the island recurred, and destroyed
>> the work of its predessor."
>>>> Alyson L. Taylor-White
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 21, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Lyle E. Browning wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> A bunch of us are working on the early history of the James River
>> canal and in doing so, the patents have been found and platted and most of
>> the successor outparcel sales. I just did a search for Henrico from
>> 1750-1870 patents and came up with 25 or so patents for "in the river"
>> patents. Once I've corralled the plats, I will be attempting to place them
>> on modern maps.
>>>>>
>>>>> My question is whether there is a handy list of what islands were
>> named in that area in the past? Mayo's Island, Belle Island with its
>> variants, Williams Island with its variants, but there are undoubtedly
>> others. Any help from anyone with a name, whether placed to a particular
>> island or not, would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>
>>>>> Lyle Browning
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