Belle Island, Richmond, VA - November 2003 (Belle Island has been the location, at various times in history, of an old Civil War prison site, the site of Tredegar Timberworks, and later Tredegar Ironworks (canon/munition factory during the war), and, up until the early 1960's, a large hyrdo-electric plant (now abandoned). The Island is centered on the James River just to the east of the City.