1005 Point of Rocks Rd., Chester, Virginia. County/parish: Chesterfield.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 10, 2005. NRIS 05000134.
2 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site.Also known as:
Point of Rocks is a historic plantation house located near Chester, Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was built about 1840, and is a one-story, three-bay, double pile dwelling with weatherboard siding and a low-pitched hipped standing seam metal roof in the Greek Revival style. Also on the property is a contributing garage. The property was the location of a Union military observation point and headquarters for General Benjamin F. Butler and hospital established in 1864 during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of the American Civil War. Union troops of the 2nd United States Colored Cavalry Regiment fought a skirmish against Confederate forces at Point of Rocks on May 23, 1864.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680160