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Pamplin Historical Park is a 424-acre private sector historical park located near Petersburg, Virginia.The park preserves open space near Richmond, Virginia in Dinwiddie County, Virginia and serves the dual use of preserving a significant fragment of the Petersburg Breakthrough Battlefield, a National Historic Landmark, and key components of the Third Battle of Petersburg.
High Bridge Trail State Park is a rail trail in Southside Virginia converted from a rail line last belonging to Norfolk Southern. The first section of the High Bridge Trail opened in 2008 with the most recent extension into The Town of Pamplin completed in Spring 2024. [ 2 ]
The battlefield is the subject of two separate, overlapping designations. In 2003 "Petersburg Breakthrough Battlefield Historic District at Pamplin Historical Park" was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, encompasses about 422 acres (171 ha), including all of Pamplin Historical Park and three adjacent residential properties. [6]
The National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, part of Pamplin Historical Park, is located in Petersburg, Virginia.A Civil War museum that has won a number of US and international awards and recognition, [1] the museum is Duty Called Me Here [2] as well as The Civil War Store, The Pamplin Board Room, and the Remembrance Wall.
In 1995, Greene became the first executive director of the Pamplin Historical Park. He also became the first director of the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier, when the museum opened in 1999. From that time on, he directed both institutions concurrently. [3] [4] [7] [11] The park and museum are both located in Dinwiddie County, Virginia
Map of Peebles' Farm Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. The Battle of Peebles' Farm (or Poplar Springs Church or Poplar Grove Church) was the western part of a simultaneous Union offensive against the Confederate works guarding Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, during the Siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War.
Pamplin Pipe Factory, also known as Merrill and Ford, The Akron Smoking Pipe Factory, and The Pamplin Smoking Pipe and Manufacturing Company, is a historic factory and archaeological site located at Pamplin, Appomattox County, Virginia. Located on the property are a wood-framed factory building, a deteriorating brick kiln, and a collapsed brick ...
Another commission was for the Pamplin Historical Park and was on a massive scale: over 4,000 square feet (370 m 2). In 2003, he designed the centerpiece mural “Gettysburg”, for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois.