A listing tugboat rusts in the brackish water at the Dutch Gap Conservation Area. There is more than one tugboat sinking or sunk near what was once a rock quarry. The Dutch Gap trail, with its trail head at Henricus Park, circles the quarry and Farrar’s Island as well as a piece of the old James River channel. Farrar’s Island was once part of Henrico County. The island, actually a peninsula until the end of the Civil War, became an island when the Dutch Gap canal was built. The Farrars, who owned 2,000 acres including the island and surrounding areas in the early 1600s, sold the property to Thomas Randolph in 1777.
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