Cultural Landscape Report for Five Forks Battlefield, Petersburg National Battlefield
Liz Sargent HLP, Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assoc. Inc., Historic Research Associates, Inc. 2024. Cultural Landscape Report for Five Forks Battlefield, Petersburg National Battlefield. Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. Northbrook, IL
The Five Forks Battlefield, located 17 miles southwest of the City of Petersburg in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, is nationally significant as the location of one of the last battles of the Civil War on April 1, 1865. A unit of the Petersburg National Battlefield since 1990, Five Forks encompasses just over 1,115 acres of land associated with the battle, with almost 450 acres of adjacent battlefield land protected under a conservation easement. The gently rolling landscape is a patchwork of farm fields and swaths of pine and deciduous woodlands, punctuated by occasional rock outcrops. The park is centered on the five-way country crossroads of Courthouse Road (Route 627), White Oak Road (Route 613), and Wheelers Pond Road (Route 645). The crossroads was in the core area of fighting and gave the Battle of Five Forks its name. The surviving rural character of the landscape surrounding this country crossroads gives the impression that little has changed at Five Forks since 1865. This report provides an illustrated site history, a description of existing landscape conditions and an analysis and evaluation of character-defining landscape characteristics and features. The information found within this report will inform a second volume addressing future landscape treatment of the Five Forks Battlefield landscape.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Liz Sargent HLP; Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assoc. Inc.; Historic Research Associates, Inc
- Date of Issue
- 2024
- Publisher
- Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc
- Units
- PETE
- Keywords
- battlefield, Civil War, cultural landscape, historic preservation, landscape preservation, OCLP
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 300202: Five Forks Battlefield