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Meetings: 3rd Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. at the Old Grant County Courthouse, 115 Virginia Ave., Petersburg About This Site The Grant County Historical Society hopes this site reaches those who have a connection to Grant County and those who share a love of history and an interest in preserving parts of our past.
Groups such as Historic Petersburg Foundation and Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities have worked to restore many of the city's buildings and recognized important districts. The Petersburg Old Town Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as are other historic districts. People appreciate the ...
Petersburg, Virginia, is known first and foremost for being on the receiving end of the longest siege in American history. The siege began on June 15, 1864, with the Union Army’s attack on Confederate earthworks east of the city, and it ended with the withdrawal of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia from Petersburg and Richmond by early morning on April 3, 1865.
What Petersburg, Virginia looked like in the 1860s through these Historical Photos. 592 Views 1. The first modern settlement of Petersburg began in the 17th century. The city was incorporated in 1748. During the American Revolutionary War, the British occupied it, and Major-General William Phillips bombarded it from the Marquis de Lafayette’s ...
7. Juli 2012 · 2. African-Americans in Petersburg Marker. Commonwealth of Mahonism—and African-American political influence—lasted for eight decades and established the pattern of Jim Crow in Virginia. Its power was finally broken, and Jim Crow ended, under assault from the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s—a movement that saw Petersburg men ...
The mission of Friends of the Historic Farmers Bank, the 1817 building which originally housed the Petersburg branch of the Farmers Bank of Virginia, is to preserve the integrity of the building, to maintain and enhance its physical condition, and to make the building available to individuals and groups as a means to educate them on banking, commerce, architecture, and life in Petersburg in ...
Genealogy. Nearly 240,000 documents are now available to the public for free through the Virginia Memory Web portal www.virginiamemory.com. The Petersburg Chancery records contain a wealth of information on the African American experience, women’s history, and southern labor and business history in the antebellum and post-Civil War periods ...
