This is from “The James River Tourist”, a  pamphlet by W.D. Chesterton,
Richmond Dispatch Steam Printing House, 1878, found in the Va. State Library
collection.  It is a list of  points of interest along the James. 

P.15,  “Warwick. – Four miles from Richmond, on the high ground on the right
(Chesterfield) bank, where an old chimney stands, is the site of the former
town of Warwick.  Previous to the revolution, and when the shoals and rocks
had not been removed to admit of navigation to Richmond, this was an
important shipping point, and was a place of more importance than Richmond.
 Traces of the old wharves are seen at low tide.  The town was burnt by
Benedict Arnold’s command of British troops in the Revolutionary War.”

Also, Jefferson’s “Notes on Virginia” notes that “Vessels of 250 tons may to
to Warwick;…” (p.23)

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