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The Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is the preserved 19th-century village named Appomattox Court House in Appomattox County, Virginia. The village was named for the presence nearby of what is now preserved as the Old Appomattox Court House .
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
The tavern originally opened in 1819 on the Richmond-Lynchburg Road for travelers and is the oldest original structure in the village of Appomattox Court House, with the exception of the Sweeney Prizery outside of the local of the village but within the Park. [4] The Clover Hill Tavern inn grew and farmhouses grew up around it soon after it opened.
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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).
For some time, the village had been in decline after it was bypassed by a railroad in the 1850s, and when the courthouse burned in 1892, the county government was moved to what is now known as Appomattox, Virginia. [4] In 1963 and 1964, the courthouse was rebuilt, and it is now the visitor center for Appomattox Court House National Historical ...
This building, constructed around the year 1790, is the oldest structure in the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. The Sweeney prizery was built primarily as a residence for Alexander Sweeney and the cellar used as a prizery for his business. By 1865, it was owned by Joel Flood. [2]
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 ...