Falling Creek, Virginia, was an unincorporated
location along
Interstate
95 near the point where a local tributary, Falling Creek, has
its confluence with the
James
River. It was perhaps best known as the site of one of the toll
barriers on the
Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike,
completed in 1958. In modern times, toll-free I-95 and the more
recently built
Pocahontas Parkway
toll road now occupy much of the
site.
Nearby, at
the northwestern edge, the old lost town of
Port
Warwick
was located on the river before its was destroyed
during the American
Revolutionary War.
Trivia
- Along U.S. 1, also nearby, a historic stone
bridge across Falling Creek was destroyed by flood waters resulting
from Tropical Storm Gaston in
August, 2004.
to the Bon Air, Virginia
area.
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