Shockoe Creek

Shockoe Creek is a watercourse in Virginia, United States, tributary to the James River.

[1][2] The Shockoe Creek watershed drained "portions of Richmond's North Side, near West End, downtown and northeast Henrico County.

[3] Shockoe Creek marked the western border of Richmond when it was incorporated as a municipality in 1742.

[4] The Shockoe Bottom neighborhood was the slave-trading district of Richmond, Virginia prior to the American Civil War.

[4] The creek has been channelized for flood control and pollution management since the 1920s.