VA-K205 City Point and Hopewell

Marker text: CITY POINT AND HOPEWELL

City Point is five miles northeast. There Governor Sir Thomas Dale made a settlement in 1613. In April, 1781, the British General Phillips landed there. Grant had his base of operations there in the siege of Petersburg, 1864-1865. Lincoln was there in April, 1865. In the World War the City of Hopewell grew up near by.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1930