Appomattox Court House NHP Landscape: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
NPS Northeast Regional Office. 2025. Appomattox Court House NHP Landscape: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 300089. National Park Service. NPS Northeast Regional Office, Boston, Massachusetts / CRIS-CL Database
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is a rehabilitated rural 19th century Virginia courthouse town and surrounding agricultural landscape that commemorates Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant there in 1865, ending the Civil War and beginning the peace. The village homes, outbuildings, and businesses surrounding the Courthouse were officially incorporated as a seat for county government in 1845. Of the 27 existing structures in the village, 14 have been reconstructed and the rest restored. Outside of the village, there are 9 historic buildings. The greater park landscape of 1,743 acres is an agricultural matrix of pastures and woodlands, with scattered rural cabins, ruins, homestead sites, and cemeteries. There is a walking trail and a series of parking areas, markers, and monuments which reveal to visitors places associated with the events of 1865. Today the land is more wooded than it historically would have been, as additional forest has grown up on disused farmland and has been planted to screen views of 20th century development. The site maintains an extraordinary sort of remoteness, an existence outside time, a sense of being in an elevated, remote and even hidden place, a setting quintessentially American.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- NPS Northeast Regional Office
- Date of Issue
- 2025
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- APCO , NER
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Appomattox Battle Site, Architecture, Battlefield Preservation, cemetery, Civilian Conservation Corps, Clover Hill, Commemoration, Commerce, Courthouse, domestic, farm, Historic Furnished Interior, historic site, Historic Vernacular Landscape, Jail, Leisure, Lodge, Marker, Military, monument, Museum, plantation, Recreation, Rehabilitation, residential, Robert E. Lee, shop, Single Family Dwelling, The Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant