• Poplar Grove National Cemetery Luminary Event (photo courtesy of Joanne Williams)

    Petersburg

    National Battlefield Virginia

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  • Time Change for Today's Corling's Corner Program

    The time for today's (June 14) Corling's Corner event has been changed from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm. This program focuses on the slave trade in Petersburg and occurs at the corner of Sycamore and Bank Streets.

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Click here to learn about President Abraham Lincoln's visits to City Point (Hopewell) and Petersburg.

Upcoming Events:

Friday, June 7
Concert: Johnny Jones and Friends
Eastern Front Visitor Center Auditorium
6:00 pm
Local group "Johnny Jones and Friends" performs Americana music in this free concert.

Saturday, June 8
NATIONAL TRAILS DAY
Eastern Front Unit
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Sunday, June 9
When the Bells Ring
Eastern Front Visitor Center, 11:00 am & 3:00 pm
What do citizens of a city do when the enemy is about to attack and few soldiers are available to defend them? They take up arms. Learn about the "old men and young boys" who defended Petersburg when Union soldiers attacked on June 9, 1864.

Did You Know?

Charles Dimmock, Architect of the Petersburg defense line.

From the summer of 1862 until the spring of 1863, Confederate Captain Charles Dimmock appealed to slaveholders to hire their enslaved people, and also hired free black laborers to dig the ten-mile defense line around the City of Petersburg. The defenses became known as the Dimmock Line.