Appomattox Court House National Historical Park ruins
37°22′43″N 78°47′47″W / 37.37861°N 78.79639°W
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park ruins | |
 Site of "old" county jail, now ruins | |
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| Nearest city | Appomattox, Virginia |
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| Built | 1865 |
| Part of | Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (ID66000827[1]) |
| Designated CP | October 15, 1966 |
The Appomattox Court House National Historical Park ruins are part of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.[2][3][4][5][6]
Old county jail
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R.J. N. Williams cabin ruin
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McDearmon–Tibbs–Scott house ruin
[edit]Samuel D. McDearmon purchased the undeveloped 206-acre (0.83 km2) "Clover Hill" tract from Hugh Raine in 1846, cutting off 30 acres (12 ha) for a county seat for the new Appomattox county. In 1849 he began improving the now 176-acre (0.71 km2) property adding $1,056 (~$30,596 in 2023) worth of buildings. By 1851 he had made improvements totaling $2,800, (~$81,513 in 2023) likely indicating that the mansion house had been completed. This chronology also corresponds to his known political and financial zenith. Although he offered the tract for sale in October 1854,[7] Jacob Tibbs did not purchase McDearmon's property until 1856 and then only 140 acres (57 ha) of it, which included the $2800 "improvements." The following year Tibbs's "improvements" had been reduced to $2000.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
Tinsley–Scott Tenant House Ruin #1-West
[edit]Tinsley–Scott Tenant House Ruin #2-East
[edit]Coleman house ruin
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Sweeney dam ruin and mill race
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Footnotes
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ Jon B. Montgomery; Reed Engle; Clifford Tobias (May 8, 1989), National Register of Historic Places Registration: Appomattox Court House / Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (version from Virginia Department of Historic Resources, including maps) (PDF), National Park Service, archived from the original (PDF) on January 15, 2009 and Accompanying 12 photos, undated (version from Federal website) (32 KB) and one photo, undated, at Virginia DHR Archived January 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "R.J. N. Williams Cabin Ruin". Retrieved January 21, 2009.
- ^ Marvel, A Place Called Appomattox, pp. 4–6
- ^ Historic American Buildings Survey: Virginia Catalog (Charlottesville: 1976) p.53. [1]
- ^ "Tibbs-Scott House Ruin". Retrieved January 21, 2009.
- ^ Marvel A Place Called Appomattox p.42-3.
- ^ Appomattox County Land Tax Records 1845 – 1857, microfilm Library of Virginia, Richmond.
- ^ "Tibbs-Scott Well". Retrieved January 21, 2009.
- ^ "Tinsley–Scott Tenant House Ruin #1-West". Retrieved January 21, 2009.
- ^ "Tinsley–Scott Tenant House Ruin #2-East". Retrieved January 21, 2009.
- ^ "Coleman House Ruin". Retrieved January 21, 2009.
- ^ "Coleman Outbuilding". Retrieved January 21, 2009.
- ^ "Sweeney Dam Ruin". Retrieved January 21, 2009.
References
[edit]- Bradford, Ned, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Plume, 1989
- Catton, Bruce, A Stillness at Appomattox, Doubleday 1953, Library of Congress # 53-9982, ISBN 0-385-04451-8
- Catton, Bruce, This Hallowed Ground, Doubleday 1953, Library of Congress # 56-5960
- Chaffin, Tom, 2006. Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah, Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,.
- Davis, Burke, The Civil War: Strange & Fascinating Facts, Wings Books, 1960 & 1982, ISBN 0-517-37151-0
- Davis, Burke, To Appomattox – Nine April Days, 1865, Eastern Acorn Press, 1992, ISBN 0-915992-17-5
- Featherston, Nathaniel Ragland, Appomattox County History and Genealogy, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1998, ISBN 0-8063-4760-0
- Gutek, Patricia, Plantations and Outdoor Museums in America's Historic South, University of South Carolina Press, 1996, ISBN 1-57003-071-5
- Kaiser, Harvey H., The National Park Architecture Sourcebook, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, ISBN 1-56898-742-0
- Kennedy, Frances H., The Civil War Battlefield Guide, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990, ISBN 0-395-52282-X
- Korn, Jerry et al., The Civil War, Pursuit to Appomattox, The Last Battles, Time-Life Books, 1987, ISBN 0-8094-4788-6
- Marvel, William, A Place Called Appomattox, UNC Press, 2000, ISBN 0-8078-2568-9
- Marvel, William, Lee's Last Retreat, UNC Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8078-5703-3
- McPherson, James M., Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford University Press, 1988,
- National Park Service, Appomattox Court House: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, Virginia, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 2002, ISBN 0-912627-70-0
- Tidwell, William A., April '65: Confederate Covert Action in the American Civil War, Kent State University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-87338-515-2
- Weigley, Russel F., A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865, Indiana University Press, 2000, ISBN 0-253-33738-0