Broadway Landing

Broadway Landing was located three miles up the Appomattox River from City Point and served as the main supply depot for Federal artillery during the siege of Petersburg. Artillery pieces and ammunition arrived by ship or barge and were offloaded there for distribution to the Bermuda Hundred front and the lines encircling Petersburg. The site is now occupied by the Hopewell City Marina downriver from I-295. A photograph taken from near this location looking downriver toward Broadway Landing shows the pontoon bridge at the landing in the background, and a close-up of the image captured the ghostly figure of a dog standing on the bridge, preserving a small scene of everyday life on the river during the final months of the Civil War.

Virginia · United States