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Appomattox Court House National Historical ParkPanoramic view of the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia
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Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
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Center right - Clover hill Tavern ca. 1937. The tavern is the site where parole passes were printed for the Army of Northern Virginia
The large structure (center right) is the Clover Hill Tavern where paroles were printed for 28,231 Confederate soldiers. This ca. 1937 image shows the tavern, slave quarters (behind), and tavern kitchen (center left). Buildings built ca. 1819.
Designations
National Historical Park - April 15, 1954
National Historical Monument - August. 13, 1935
U. S. War Department Battlefield Site - June 18, 1930
Theodore Lyman (left) Centipede - Harvard Collection (right)  

Did You Know?
Theodore Lyman of General Meade's staff collected this centipede while at Appomattox in April 1865. Lyman, a student of Natural History was fourth in the class of 1855 at Harvard University. *Centipede image courtesy of Harvard University.

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