Site of Green Pottery

In 1764, Thomas Green sold a one-quarter acre lot at this location to his grandson, Charles Green. Some time thereafter, Charles established a facility for the manufacturing of redware pottery on this site. The business is known to have been ...

City Point

One of the World's Busiest Seaports

City Point had been a port for more than 250 years before the Union army arrived. On June 15, Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant established his headquarters at City Point just eight miles behind the ...

A Busy Port

“Beyond the masts and rigging and the smoke stacks and steam of the water craft, were groups of tents, long ranges of whitewashed barracks, log huts, and shanties of every shape.....these were moving uniformed soldiers and officers, negroes driving mule ...

Historic City Point

“It must once have been a quite pretty place, and consisted of a large number of scattered private houses, several of them very good ones.” Col. Theodore Lyman, USA, June 16, 1864

The village of City Point dates to 1613. Prior ...

Women At City Point

“It was a nervous place for a woman; but I endured it, rahter feeling a kind of enthusiasm in the nearness to danger and death.” - Sarah Palmer, Ninth Corps Hospital Nurse

Women decided to come to City Point for as ...

The Springhouse

Meadowlark Botanical Gardens

In the old days, springhouses did the job of

refrigerators. This springhouse served the

occupants of the farm from the 18th through

the early 20th centuries.

It was built directly over the spring and

shaded by trees. Cool spring water flowing

into the structure ...

Brenton Point Maritime Memorial

In Honor of Ernest Coggeshall, Jr.

9/2/15 – 4/27/95

Capt. Joseph X. “Jay” O’Brien, Jr.

4/21/54 – 12/16/90

Dad, Mom and Family

[ Right Side of Monument : ]

James Wah Gin Wong

1918 – 1993

Stephen Joseph Fougere

1954 – 1972

John Henry Rayner

1956 – 1990

James T. O’Connell

1889 – ...

Appomattox Manor

Patented 1635 by Captain Francis Eppes, who came by tradition in the Hopewell. Owned by the same family probably longer than any land in U.S. Shelled by British during American Revolution.

Marker is at the intersection of Cedar Lane and Pecan ...

City Point

First settled as Bermuda Cittie by Sir Thomas Dale 1613. Important colonial port. Peter Francisco put ashore 1765 was Washington's “one man army.” Incorporated 1826. Annexed Hopewell 1923.

Marker is at the intersection of Cedar Lane and Pecan Avenue, on the ...

Seven Patriot Heroes

Homes and Last Resting Places

Nearby were the homes of three Afro-Virginians who served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War. Sgt. March Corprew, Co. I, 2nd USCT Cavalry, and his brother Pvt. Daniel Corprew, Co. D, ...