{"nrhp_refnum":"66000827","name":"Appomattox Court House National Historical Park","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"3 mi. NE of Appomattox on VA 24","address_restricted":false,"city":"Appomattox","county":"Appomattox County","state":"VA","lat":37.38308663400005,"lon":-78.78623581130552,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Conservation","Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1,325-acre restored nineteenth-century rural Virginia village and surrounding landscape, three miles northeast of the town of Appomattox in Appomattox County. It is now a national historical park with 13 restored and 14 reconstructed buildings clustered around the courthouse.","why_significant":"The park commemorates the April 9, 1865 surrender of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant. It also preserves a wide range of late eighteenth and nineteenth century buildings, structures and sites, together with roads, fences and fields that form a cultural landscape for interpreting the 1865 events.","narrative":"Appomattox Court House is a restored rural Virginia village and 1,325-acre landscape of fields and woodland in the piedmont, three miles northeast of the town of Appomattox. It marks the place where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Union Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865. Thirteen restored and fourteen reconstructed buildings cluster around the courthouse, including the Clover Hill Tavern, built in 1819, and the Mariah Wright House, built in 1823. The buildings range from small log cabins to the homes of prosperous judges and court officials. Surrounding roads, fences, hedgerows and farm fields recall the village as it appeared in 1865-1870. Sites tied to the surrender, such as the Surrender Triangle, the headquarters sites of both generals and the site of the last battle, are also included, along with a 1905 North Carolina monument. The park is recognized for both its military history and its preserved community landscape.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Clover Hill Tavern built by Alexander Patterson (1819); Mariah Wright House built by Pryor Wright (1823)","architectural_style":"Vernacular rural Virginia buildings, including log cabins, with Greek Revival and Georgian-influenced details","criteria":[],"status_note":"Maintained as a restored village and park; several buildings operate as museums open to the public, while the Mariah Wright House is not open to the public.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:56.807281-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/6795/41679566/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/66000827.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000827/25f7df312c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000827/25f7df312c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Doug Coldwell","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appomattox_Court_House_Historical_Park.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Doug Coldwell</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appomattox_Court_House_Historical_Park.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41679566","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appomattox_Court_House_National_Historical_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4744652"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/appomattox-county/appomattox-court-house-national-historical-park-66000827/"}