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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.
In March 2013, the park opened a Visitor Contact Station in Middletown, Virginia, featuring interpretive exhibits and information on how visitors can experience the park. The Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove is also a U.S. National Historic Landmark, [4] and the 900-acre (360 ha) "Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove" is listed on the ...
The park currently comprises 263 acres (106 ha), but will grow to over 2,200 acres (890 ha) over the next few years through a series of planned acquisitions from American Battlefield Trust, Brandy Station Foundation and the Cedar Mountain Battlefield to the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation.
[16] [17] The Trust, working in partnership with Tricord, Inc., SunTrust Bank, and the Central Virginia Battlefield Trust, was able to purchase the property for $12 million in 2006. To support the preservation efforts at the Slaughter Pen Farm the Department of the Interior awarded a $2 million CWBPP grant based on the significance of the land ...
A portion of the landmarked battlefield area is included in Sailor's Creek Battlefield Historical State Park. The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its partners have acquired and preserved 885 acres (3.58 km 2) of the battlefield in five transactions since 1996. [5] Hillsman House, at Sayler's Creek Battlefield ...
Petersburg National Battlefield is a National Park Service unit preserving sites related to the American Civil War Siege of Petersburg (1864–65). The battlefield is near the city of Petersburg, Virginia, and includes outlying components in Hopewell, Prince George County, and Dinwiddie County. Over 140,000 people visit the park annually.
The park was established as Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park on February 14, 1927, and transferred from the War Department August 10, 1933. The lengthy name remains its official designation—75 letters, the longest name of any unit in the national park system.
The Shenanandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District is a National Heritage Area in Virginia The district comprises eight counties in the Shenandoah Valley , including the scene of Jackson's Valley Campaign of 1862 , Lee's Gettysburg Campaign of 1863 and Sheridan's Shenandoah Campaign of 1864 .