Why Hull Street and Hull Street Road?

David Lefkowitz at RIC Today has the skinny on some of why Hull Street becomes Hull Street Road just east of Southside Plaza:

Throughout the city, there are several major thoroughfares bearing the designation “street road.” Hull Street becomes Hull Street Road at about 37th Street

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The same is true for Hull Street and Hull Street Road — the point at which the street name changes is actually the former city limit. In 1970, Richmond annexed 23 square miles of Chesterfield County.

The border is the former CSX rail bed that will soon be the James River Branch Trail. The rail line started as the James River Branch of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad in 1891, before being abandoned in the 1950s.