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Attn. GPS Users: Physical Addresses of Park Units
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Program Locations
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Petersburg National Battlefield preserves extensive fortifications and battlefields. Educational field trips are held at all three of the units, including City Point in Hopewell, Virginia, the Eastern front, in Petersburg, Virginia and Five Forks in Dinwiddie County. City Point is located off of VA 10 onto Appomattox Street. A left on Cedar Lane takes you to the site. The Eastern Front is located east of the city of Petersburg just off Va 36. Five Forks is located Off of Route 460 in Dinwiddie County. The specific locations of the educational field trips are as follows: A Slave, A Plantation, A War City Point, Hopewell, VA City Under Siege Tour Stop #1 / Visitor Center and Battery Five and/or Portrait of a Soldier Tour Stop #3 / Union Encampment and/or Beans, Bullets, and Blankets Woe to the Wounded Tour Stop #1 / Visitors Center and Battery Five and/or Tour Stop #1/Visitors Center and Battery Five/Stop #3 Union Encampment and/or |
Did You Know?
Union Brevet Brigadier General Frederick Winthrop was Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop's sixth great-grandson. Winthrop was mortally wounded at the Battle of Five Forks on April 1, 1865.
(Petersburg National Battlefield)