The 17th Street Market on the corner on Main and 17th Streets has a long history in Richmond. The site had been a public gathering place since the 1700s and due to its closeness to the James River and Main Street, which was the connection between Richmond and Williamsburg; it was an ideal place for commerce.
In 1779, the Virginia General Assembly officially declared the site as a “public market.” Decades later, in the 1850s, a larger market building was constructed. The First Market House was constructed during the Civil War in 1856 and originally served as a gathering place for soldiers on both sides of the war—first Confederates, and later Union troops.
06-21-1969 (cutline): Summer's arrival at 9:55 a.m. today found Elmore Tucker and Arthur Hermann at the 17th Street Market, displaying produce from Hermann's farm at Quinton, New Kent County.
08-11-1987 (cutline): Luceal Allen arranges produce in her stand at the Farmer's Market Festival.
08-16-1980 (cutline): Leonard and Kathy Wheeler (center) sell her handcrafted work on table set up for Farmer's Market festival.
06-26-1953 (cutline): Wilbur Smith puts a polish on the First Market marker.
06-25-1986 (cutline): One of two antique terra cotta bulls' heads is prepared for mounting by Ron Kingery yesterday at the 17th Street Market. The heads, originally in place at a public market at Sixth and Marshall streets, were discovered in the Richmond Surplus Property warehouse. They have been restored by the virginia Commonwealth University art history professor Laurence Pace and a student, Linda Blackwell.
08-01-1986 (cutline): The hoedown celebrating the reopening of the Farmers' Market at 17th and Main streets gets under way at noon Saturday with arts, crafts, music by six bands--and farmers, of course.
07-09-1981 (cutline): Country delicacies of all sorts, from cantaloupes to green beans, are on sale at the 17th Street Market in Richmond.
12-28-1975 (cutline): Local vegetables are beginning to come in a serious way. The 17th Street market stalls are filling up.
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