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

    Petersburg

    National Battlefield Virginia

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Segway Tours

Through a commercial use agreement between Segway of Richmond and Petersburg National Battlefield you can now book Segway tours of the Eastern Front.

Click here to make your reservation, meet at the battlefield for the tour, and a ranger will guide you around. It's a new and more personal way to explore the battlefield.

There is a $5.00 per vehicle entrance fee.

 

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.