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Dutch Gap: I-95 - MM 61.4 - SB - Rte 10
Dutch Gap combines a wooded riverside setting with the scale of a major transport corridor in a way that reflects its position along the James River south of Richmond. This Chesterfield County community is associated with Dutch Gap Canal, an artificial cut through a neck of land in a wide river bend. Union troops began digging the canal in 1864 during the Civil War, seeking to bypass Confederate defenses on the James. The surrounding former river bend is now protected as the Dutch Gap Conservation Area, with wetlands and forest beside the water. Interstate 95 passes through the area, connecting this stretch of the James River with Virginia’s principal north–south highway.
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