The neighborhood’s name comes from its history. Added to the City of Richmond in 1901, Scott’s Addition stayed close — its boundaries never changing — but wandered far with entrepreneurial visions. Breweries and boutique bowling, ciders and cinema, restaurants and rooftops and retail, all within walking.
From the Richmond Night Market at 17th Street Market to the Virginia Capital Trail, there is something for everyone to do in downtown Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom. While you enjoy the Shockoe Bottom we know and love today, you can also honor the legacies of each enslaved African Americans’ journey through Shockoe Bottom and reflect on their resilience and resistance in the fight against slavery along the Richmond Slave Trail and the Shockoe Bottom Burial Ground.