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Explosion of the Powder Barges Hendricks and General Meade at City Point, VA, August 9 Alfred R. Waud's illustration of the explosion of the barge J. E. Kendrick at City Point on August 9, 1864, published in Harper's Weekly on August 27, 1864 The magazine wharf at City Point during the Civil War The waterfront of City Point, Virginia (present-day Hopewell) during the winter of 1864–1865
City Point Historic District is a national historic district located at Hopewell, Virginia. The district encompasses 85 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites at the tip of a peninsula at the confluence of the Appomattox River and James River. The district primarily includes one- and two-story, wood-frame single-family dwellings dated ...
City Point National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the community of City Point within the city of Hopewell, Virginia. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs , it encompasses 6.7 acres (2.7 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 6,909 interments.
Grant's Headquarters at City Point is a museum operated by the National Park Service at Appomattox Manor in Hopewell, Virginia. It is a unit of the Petersburg National Battlefield Park, located where Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant had his headquarters for nine-and-a-half months. [1] City Point was a port on the James River.
City Point Map by Couty 1837. The City Point Railroad was an eight plus mile railroad in eastern Virginia established in 1836 which ran from City Point (now part of the independent City of Hopewell) on the navigable portion of the James River to Petersburg, Virginia.
Depot Field Hospital National Park Service marker for the Depot Field Hospital at City Point. Depot Field Hospital was one of seven hospitals operated at City Point, Virginia, in the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War. [1] The largest, Depot Field Hospital, covered nearly 200 acres (800,000 m 2) and could hold up to 10,000 patients.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The Southside Railroad was formed in Virginia in 1846. Construction was begun in 1849 and completed in 1854. [1] [2] The 5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge [3] railroad connected City Point, a port on the James River with the farm country south and west of Petersburg, Virginia, to Lynchburg, Virginia, a distance of about 132 miles (212 km).