Sketch of first train leaving City Point in 1838 by Francis Earle Lutz drawn in 1957.
Overview
Locale
Hopewell, Virginia
Termini
City Point, Virginia
Petersburg, Virginia (headquarters)
History
Opened
1836
Closed
1847 (purchased by Southside Railroad in 1854)
Technical
Line length
8.6 mi (13.8 km)
Track gauge
5 ft (1,524 mm) gauge[1]
In 1836, the Virginia House of Delegates approved a charter for the City Point Railroad. City Point, Virginia, was just ten years old. The Lower Appomattox Company ran boats of cargo from Petersburg, Virginia, to the large port at City Point. The company knew that the port needed a rail road to be competitive in the 1830s even though this would only be the second rail road in Virginia.[2] Large ships that were too large for Port Walthall or Petersburg had to load and unload at City Point.[3] Goods for export arrived in Petersburg from farms and plantations by way of the Upper Appomattox Canal Navigation System. The Richmond and Petersburg Railroad bringing coal and goods to port was also chartered in 1836. Coal arriving by boat from the Clover Hill Pits in 1837 and goods would soon be taken on the Clover Hill Railroad to connect with the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad to export from the area ports.
^Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1900. p. 73.
^Lewes, David (May 20, 2003). Windows into the Past: Archaeological Assessment of Three City Point Lots, City of Hopewell, Virginia (PDF) (Report). William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research. pp. 18–20. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
^The New American Encyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge. D. Appleton. 1872. p. 196.
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