Cultural Overview of City Point, Petersburg National Battlefield, Hopewell, Virginia
Horning AJ. 2004. Cultural Overview of City Point, Petersburg National Battlefield, Hopewell, Virginia
Management Summary: In August 2001, the National Park Service and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation initiated a cultural overview of the City Point Unit of the Petersburg National Battlefield in Hopewell, Virginia under Supplementary Agreement #CA4000-2- 1017. The scope of work included the compilation and presentation of “a cultural overview of the City Point area that includes the placement of prehistoric and historic resources in the context of James River and Chesapeake archaeology.” The following report presents this cultural overview of City Point, beginning with evidence for Paleo- Indian activity in the James River region and concluding with a consideration of the twentieth-century history and landscape of the City Point Unit of the Petersburg National Battlefield. Particular attention is paid to the role of the site as a protohistoric Appomattuck village; to the possibility that City Point is the location of the 1613-1622 English village of Charles City; and to the centrality of the African American experience at City Point from at least as early as 1635 through to the present.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Horning, Audrey
- Date of Issue
- 2004-12
- Units
- HIST , PETE
- Keywords
- American Revolution, antebellum, Appommattox Manor, Archaeology, Archaic, Charles City, Chesapeake, City Point, colonial, Cultural Histories, Cultural Resources, ehistory, Environmental, evidence, expansion, History, Location, Management, Migration, Military, national battlefield, Overview, Paleo-Indian, Prehistoric, Settlement, seventeenth century, Virginia, Woodland