Military
City Point dates to 1613. Before the Civil War, the hamlet had 25 houses, five wharves, three taverns, and a railroad that was especially important to the Union Army, and a few of those prewar structures still remain as part of the City Point Historic District. Civil War fighting first reached City Point in the spring of 1862, when Union gunboats shelled the hamlet. When the Union army arrived two years later, City Point changed dramatically as a temporary city rose around the village, with more than 280 new structures, acres of wharves, and thousands of soldiers.
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Hopewell, Virginia · United States
