City Point, Virginia - Definition

Waterfront at City Point, Virginia (now Hopewell) in 1865

City Point was a town in Prince George County, Virginia in the state of Virginia. Now extinct, the town became part of the independent city of Hopewell in 1923. City Point is now considered a neighborhood of Hopewell.

History

City Point owed its existence to its site overlooking the James and Appomattox Rivers. City Point was established in 1613 by Sir Thomas Dale.

During the American Civil War, City Point was the headquarters of General Ulysses S. Grant during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865. The City Point Railroad, built in 1838 between City Point and Petersburg played an important role, and later became the oldest portion of the Norfolk and Western Railway, itself now a part of Norfolk Southern.

Grant's Headquarters at Appomattox Manor form part of the National Park Service's Petersburg National Battlefield Park. The adjacent City Point Historical District is a registered National Historical Landmark.

See main article Hopewell, Virginia for more information

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

External links

• City of Hopewell (http://www.ci.hopewell.va.us/)
• Maps and aerial photos
  • Street map from Mapquest (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&latitude=37.290399&longitude=-77.303371&zoom=6)
  • Topographic map from Topozone (http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=37.290399&lon=-77.303371&s=200&size=m&layer=DRG100)
  • Aerial photograph from Microsoft Terraserver (http://terraserver.microsoft.com/map.aspx?t=1&s=14&lon=-77.303371&lat=37.290399&w=750&h=500)

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