Performance Food Group

Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area. The population within the city limits was 204,214 in 2010, with... an estimated population of 1,258,251 for the Richmond Metropolitan Area — making it the third largest in Virginia. Geographically, Richmond is located at the fall line of the James River, 108 miles south of Washington DC, 71 miles east of Charlottesville, and 54 miles west of Williamsburg. Surrounded by Henrico and Chesterfield counties, the city is located at the intersections of Interstate 95 and Interstate 64, and encircled by Interstate 295 and Virginia State Route 288. The site of Richmond, at the fall line of the James River, had been an important village of the Powhatan Confederacy, and was briefly settled by English colonists from Jamestown in 1609, and in 1610–1611. The present city of Richmond was founded in 1737. It became the capital of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780.
more