Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from City Point, an Amendment to the Development Concept Plan: June 1992
The City Point Unit of Petersburg National Battlefield is located on a peninsula at the con?uence of the Appomattox and James Rivers in what is now Hopewell, Virginia. City Point, a small hamlet within Hopewell, is about ten miles from the cities of Colonial Heights and Petersburg and twenty miles southwest of Richmond, the state capital. Hopewell is a mostly industrial city surrounded by rural and agricultural lands. It is served by state highway routes 10 and 36, both of which are now linked to interstates 95 to the south and 64 to the north by the recently constructed 295 extension.
Of the two rivers that surround the point, the James has a deep water channel and receives moderate use from ocean-going ships which dock at Richmond's deep water terminal; the Appomattox provides access for small boats travelling to Petersburg. When dredging of the Appomattox is completed, larger boats will be able to travel to Petersburg.
The entire park, encompassing twenty-one acres, became a unit of Petersburg National Battlefield in 1979. All but one acre of this land has been acquired by the National Park Service since that time.
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