18th century five part Palladian style mansion which is just beginning restoration. Battersea was built by Petersburg's Founding Father, John ... More Info

This 18th-century parish church is a memorial to the Southern soldiers who died during the Civil War. In honor of the Confederate dead, each state ... More Info

Part of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army crossed to the north bank of the Appomattox River here the night of April 2, 1865 as he evacuated ... More Info

Centre Hill was built in 1823 by Robert Bolling IV, a Revolutionary War veteran. The house was restored in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth ... More Info

Dogwood Trace Golf Course More Info

The Farmers Bank of Virginia built this Petersburg branch in 1817. Its Board of Directors raised $208,000 in capital. Here, in one of the oldest ... More Info

First Baptist Church More Info

One of a series of Union fortifications. This one built June 1864. Earthworks preserved in small park.... More Info

This Union fort was built shortly after fighting to capture one of the most important Confederate lifelines to Petersburg, the Weldon Railroad. The ... More Info

Friends of the Lower Appomattox River More Info

Gillfield Baptist Church, Petersburg, Virginia, established in 1797, is the second oldest African-American congregation in Petersburg and one of ... More Info

Idle Moment Farm More Info

Joseph Jenkins Roberts Monument More Info

Trails sign marks the point where a Union cavalry assault against Petersburg was stopped by Confederate cavalry, artillery and a collection of city ... More Info

Lee Park Golf Course More Info

A devastating fire on a hot summer night in 1815 wiped out the old towne of Petersburg, a collection of wooden warehouses and homes along the ... More Info

A National Historic Landmark and one of “Virginia’s Best Places to Visit” according to the Travel Channel, Pamplin Historical ... More Info

People's Cemetery More Info