Appomattox Court House Village: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
NPS Northeast Regional Office. 2025. Appomattox Court House Village: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 300120. National Park Service. NPS Northeast Regional Office, Boston, Massachusetts / CRIS-CL Database
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park is a rehabilitated 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 formed a hub for county government dating from the 1840s. Of the 27 existing structures in the village, 14 have been reconstructed. The focal point of the village is the reconstructed Courthouse building, which now houses the Visitor Center. The village as a whole offers a cohesive experience of a rural courthouse town of its time, with narrow lanes surfaced in crushed stone and grass leading the visitor among homes, fenced yards, and outbuildings; the tavern, jail and store; small family burial plots; and orchards. Sweeping views of the surrounding pastureland and forested hills are visible throughout the village.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- NPS Northeast Regional Office
- Date of Issue
- 2025
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- APCO , NER
- Keywords
- Appomattox Battlefield Site, Archeological Preservation, Architecture, Battlefield Preseration, cemetery, Civilian Conservation Corps, Clover Hill, Conservation, Courthouse, domestic, Funerary, Historic Furnished Interior, Historic Preservation, historic site, Historic Vernacular Landscape, hotel, Jail, Leisure, markers, Military, monument, Museum, Outdoor Museum, Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, residential, Robert E. Lee, shop, Single Family Dwelling, The Civil War, The New Deal, Ulysses S. Grant