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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCW9_the-bull-ring-at-city-point_Hopewell-VA.html
"It was a pen of filth and vermin." - William Howell Reed, a Sanitary Commission agent
The Bull Ring was the Union provost Marshal's prison at City Point used for the confinement of Union soldiers convicted or charged with desertion, murder, ra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCAV_samuel-jordan-of-jordans-journey_Hopewell-VA.html
Prior to 1619, Native Americans occupied this prominent peninsula along the upper James River, now called Jordan's Point. Arriving in Jamestown by 1610, Samuel Jordan served in July 1619 in Jamestown as a burgess for Charles City in the New World'…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCAU_richard-bland_Hopewell-VA.html
Richard Bland (1710-1776), statesman and son of Richard and Elizabeth Randolph Bland of Jordan's Point, represented Prince George County in the House of Burgesses from 1742 to 1776. Between the 1750s and 1774, Bland played a leading role through n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBJI_virginias-first-world-war-i-monument_Hopewell-VA.html
On Memorial Day 1921, Hopewell American Legion Post 80 dedicated the Commonwealth of Virginia's first tribute to those who made the supreme sacrifice during World War I. The monument now honors Hopewell's fallen heroes from succeeding wars and con…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9H9_depot-field-hospital_Hopewell-VA.html
"I think this is a very good place with the exception of too many lice." - Stephen P. Chase, 86th New York Volunteers.
Lice may have been the only problem the staff of the Depot Field Hospital could not handle. The largest of seven hospitals bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM9H0_weston-manor_Hopewell-VA.html
"? a very pretty, large white house situated on a hill that sloped to the river; with pretty fruit and shade trees scattered over the lawn." - Emma Wood Richardson
Weston Manor provided a safe haven for young Emma Wood and her family during the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7IO_flowerdew-hundred_Hopewell-VA.html
Four miles north of here, Governor Sir George Yeardley established Flowerdew Hundred settlement by 1619. In 1621 a windmill was built there, the first one recorded in English North America. In response to English expansion in Powhatan lands, such …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7IM_powells-creek_Hopewell-VA.html
The creek nearby was named for Nathaniel Powell, acting Governor in 1619. Weyanoke Indian town was here. Nearby is the site of an old mill, known in the Revolution as Bland's, and later, Cocke's Mill. The British General Phillips passed here, May …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3X2_the-depot-field-hospital_Hopewell-VA.html
"The sick and wounded are as promptly and carefully taken care of as those in a City or Town, and probably much better."- Gen. Rufus Ingalls, USA
Across the cove from you, on the site of the modern hospital, stood the largest of the Union hospi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3X1_a-supply-hub_Hopewell-VA.html
City Point's location at the confluence of the James and Appomattox Rivers made it an ideal hub for the movement of men and material.
From City Point, supplies and men traveled by road and rail to the Petersburg front. Troops or equipment bound…