JAMES RIVER + Belle Isle Abandoned Power Plant - Richmond, Virginia Drone Video

James River flows 350 miles from the Appalachian Mountains to Chesapeake Bay. In pre-colonial times, Native Americans called it Powhatan River, after the Chief of the Tsenocommacah people. English colonists named it after King James the First when founding Jamestown in 1607. It served as a major highway in Virginia’s infancy and facilitated the tobacco boom that further drove America’s immigration. It envelops Belle Isle, which houses the abandoned hydroelectric power plant in the video. It opened in 1904 and powered the USA’s first trolley system in Richmond. It closed in 1967 and has since fallen back to nature and daredevil graffiti artists that make the climbs inside.

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Thanks for the footage! The graffiti is beautiful!

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I'm surprised there have been no comments! This is a beautiful view of the James. I live in an area south of Richmond where the river is wide and has nothing to impede its flow. I never realized how rocky the upper James was. So cool and thanks for the nice photography!