Things To Do in Colonial Heights, Virginia

In 1777, shipping mercahnt Thomas Shore purchased 144 acres atop Archer's Hill naming the property, Violet Bank. The present building, owned by the City of Colonial Heights, replaces the first hous... More on Virginia.org

Inscription. The present building was built around 1815 as it is the domestic architecture of the federal period. There are two theories concerning the origin of the name “Violet Bank”.... More on HMDB

Inscription. Nearby on 9 May 1864, Brig. Gen. Johnson Hagood's South Carolina Brigade attacked advancing elements of the Union X and XVIII Corps. As they 11th S. C. Infantry Regiment engaged the Fe... More on HMDB

Inscription. You are standing in the middle of the Union line that faced the Confederate route of attack up the Richmond Turnpike on May 9, 1864, during Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's Bermuda Hund... More on HMDB

Inscription. In 1839, David Dunlop and his wife, Anna Mercer Minge, a niece of President William Henry Harrison, acquired the Ellerslie tract. Robert Young designed the castellated Gothic Revival mansion for Dunlop in 1856, and construction ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Lt. Col. Walter H. Taylor, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lees aide, established Lees headquarters here at Violet Bank on June 17, 1864, at the beginning of the siege of Petersburg. The city, protected by Confederate defensive ... More on HMDB

Inscription. From this hill Lafayette, on May 10, 1781, shelled the British in Petersburg. (On stone under the marker): Headquarters of, General Lafayette, 1781, Frances Bland Randolph, Chapter, D. A. R. 1903. , Erected 1927 by Conservation ... More on HMDB

Inscription. At the nearby junction of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad and the Confederate military spur line to Ettrick, stood Dunlop's Station, a Confederate telegraph post and supply depot. During the siege of Petersburg, ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Located here was Stop 54 on the electric interurban railway line between Richmond and Petersburg. Opened in 1902 by the Virginia Passenger and Power Co. the line crossed Swift Creek on a steel truss bridge and followed ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Confederate Fort Clifton guarded the Appomattox River and helped protect Petersburg in 1864-1865. The three earthworks that comprised the forts batteries still stand on the bluffs along the river. Artillerists and militiamen ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Lee's headquarters from the latter part of June, 1864 to September, 1864 were here. , Erected 1927 by Conservation & Development Commission. (Marker Number S-27: ), , Location. 37° 14.468′ N, 77° 24.379′ ... More on HMDB

Inscription. The Bermuda Hundred Campaign began on May 5, 1864, when Union General Benjamin Butler and the 33,000-man Army of the James landed at Bermuda Hundred nine miles northeast of here. General Butler's westward advance threatened ... More on HMDB