page_title: Chesterfield Railroad
section_title: Heritage & remnants
hierarchical_section_title: Chesterfield Railroad / Heritage & remnants
caption_attribution_description: English: The now damaged granite block eastern and western abutments that were part of the Falling Creek Railroad Bridge of the Chesterfield Railroad.
context_page_description: The Chesterfield Railroad was located in Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was a 13-mile long mule-and-gravity powered line that connected the Midlothian coal mines with wharves that were located at the head of navigation on the James River just below the Fall Line at Manchester. It began operating in 1831 as Virginia's first common carrier railroad.
  Although it was dismantled before the American Civil War after being supplanted by the steam-powered Richmond and Danville Railroad, several portions of the embankments for the roadbed are extant in Chesterfield County near present-day Midlothian Turnpike.
context_section_description: The Chesterfield Railroad is commemorated by two Virginia Historical Markers and an exhibit in the Chesterfield Museum.
caption: The now damaged granite block eastern and western abutments  that were part of the Falling Creek Railroad Bridge of the Chesterfield Railroad.
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