Jefferson Park is located in the Union Hill neighborhood, located just north of near historic Church Hill. The park offers the best view of the downtown Richmond skyline north of the James River.
It is situated on the high western bluff above Shockoe Bottom in Union Hill, which has a history as a 19th-century, mostly working-class community. The park is mostly open space, trees and grass, but offers a bandstand with comfort facility, tot lot and exercise trail.
Buried deep below the park is one of Richmond's most fascinating legends and mysteries, the 0.75-mile Church Hill train tunnel has been like a deadly snake lurking beneath the capital city and Jefferson Park for more than 140 years. The tunnel has proven to be unstable in its history, in one case gobbling a whole house, a workman and tons of earth in a cave-in in 1962. But once its ends were blocked off after consuming a work train and at least two workers in 1925, the tunnel has, for the most part, silently guarded its secrets.
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