{"nrhp_refnum":"66000831","name":"Petersburg National Battlefield","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"SE, S, and SW of Petersburg","address_restricted":false,"city":"Petersburg","county":"Dinwiddie County","state":"VA","lat":37.23627199650005,"lon":-77.35900991547416,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Petersburg National Battlefield (also called Petersburg National Battlefield Park) is a historic district in Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.","why_significant":"The file does not include the nomination narrative, so no statement of significance is available. The surviving papers are Section 106 review correspondence and a Memorandum of Agreement. They treat the battlefield as a listed property that a proposed public housing project would affect adversely.","narrative":"Petersburg National Battlefield, also referred to as Petersburg National Battlefield Park, is a historic district in Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. The surviving file lacks the original nomination form, photographs and map, so its description and statement of significance are not available here. What remains is correspondence from 1980 about a proposed public housing project on Hickory Hill Road. The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Virginia State Historic Preservation Officer determined that the project would adversely affect the battlefield. A Memorandum of Agreement, ratified in December 1980, set conditions to reduce that harm. It required an archeological survey before construction and a data recovery program if significant resources could not be preserved in place. It also called for a landscaping plan to limit visual impact and preserve the park's setting, and gave the National Park Service a chance to review plans for stormwater runoff.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"A 1980 federal review found that a proposed public housing project would adversely affect the battlefield. A Memorandum of Agreement set mitigation measures for it.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:57.63128-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/25/6804/41680425/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/66000831.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000831/dca6126984-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000831/dca6126984-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Ernest Mettendorf","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Restored_entrance_to_mine,_Petersburg_VA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ernest Mettendorf</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Restored_entrance_to_mine,_Petersburg_VA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680425","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersburg_National_Battlefield","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7178190"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/dinwiddie-county/petersburg-national-battlefield-66000831/"}