City Point Community Church

Known as City Point, this area was settled shortly after the Civil War by Confederate veterans, citrus grove workers, northern winter residents, and consumptives seeking a healthy climate. By early 1885, a board of trustees was formed consisting of William ...

Virginia Indians near City Point

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

This peninsula separated two chiefdoms subject to Powhatan, the Weyanock and the Appomattuck. John Smith's map shows the Appomattuck people, whom Christopher Newport described as initially unfriendly, living in this vicinity. He told of ...

City Point

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Just east of the shallow bay where the Appomattox River empties into the James, City Point juts into the water. Upon first spying the easily defensible peninsula, Capt. Christopher Newport determined to deposit his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

City Point

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Just east of the shallow bay where the Appomattox River empties into the James, City Point juts into the water. Upon first spying the easily defensible peninsula, Capt. Christopher Newport determined to deposit his ...

City Point’s Rails And Waterways

Tools of War for General Grant

City Point...tells more about how war is conducted than many battlefields. It demonstrates how Union forces used rivers and railroads to deliver the tools of war directly to the troops in the field. – Robert ...

City Point, Virginia

8000 — B.C. Indian occupancy.

1613 Sir Thomas Dale establishes area as “Bermuda Cittie.”

1619 — Name changes to Charles City Point.

1621 — Rev. Patrick Copeland plans to build free public school, financed by the East India Company.

1622 — The Indian Massacre ...