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The site's name was changed from the "Appomattox Battlefield Site" to "Appomattox Court House National Historical Monument" in 1935 as part of legislation that authorized the park to be increased in size and for the McLean House to be reconstructed; the name change to "Appomattox Court House National Historical Park" occurred in 1954.
National Park Service, Appomattox Court House: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 2002, ISBN 0-912627-70-0 Tidwell, William A., April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War , Kent State University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-87338-515-2
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Notable buildings include the Appomattox Courthouse (1892), Appomattox County Jail (1895-1897), County Office Building (1940), Knickerbocker Hotel (1892), Bank of Appomattox (1906), Appomattox Middle School (1908), Appomattox Pentecostal Holiness Church (c. 1900), and "The Nebraska House" (1854, 1872, c. 1896).
The "new" Appomattox Courthouse is near the Appomattox Station and where the regional county government is located. Before the Civil War, the railroad bypassed Clover Hill, now known as the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. [1] As a result the population of Clover Hill, where the Old Appomattox Courthouse once stood, never grew ...
Appomattox County is a United States county located in the Piedmont region and near the center of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is part of the Lynchburg, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and its county seat is the town of Appomattox. [1] Appomattox County was created in 1845 from parts of four other Virginia counties.
Appomattox Court House may refer to: The village of Appomattox Court House, now the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park , in central Virginia (U.S.), where Confederate army commander Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant in the American Civil War.
The Mariah Wright house is a structure within the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. [3] It was registered in the National Park Service 's database of Official Structures on June 26, 1989.