Built 1840 (1840) VLR # 020-0123 Opened 1840 Added to NRHP 10 March 2005 | NRHP Reference # 05000134 Designated VLR December 6, 2004 Area 4 ha | |
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Similar R Garland Dodd Park, Dutch Gap Conservation Area, Henricus Historical Park, Magnolia Grange, City Point National Cemetery | ||
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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
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