City Point Historical Highway Markers

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Location:

1001 Pecan Avenue, Hopewell, VA 23803

Amenities

3 listed

Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Large Print, Parking - Auto

Three historical highway markers were placed in 1961 by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources through the Virginia historical highway marker program.

TEXT ON SIGN: 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.

TEXT ON SIGN: Appomattox Manor. Patented 1635 by Captain Francis Epes. Who came by tradition in the Hopewell. Owned by same family probably longer than nay land in U.S. Shelled by British during American Revolution.

TEXT ON SIGN: General Grant's Headquarters at Appomattox Manor 1864-65 during siege of Petersburg and Richmond. President Lincoln spent 3 weeks in City Point during April, 1865.