Petersburg National Battlefield

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.