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The decisive Civil War battle of Five Forks, fought April 1, 1865, took its name from the junction of five county roads that became the focus of intense conflict. The defeat of Confederate forces sent here to protect Gen. Robert E. Lee’s last supply line forced the Southern commander to abandon his defense of Richmond and Petersburg and begin his retreat west. Eight days later, Lee was outflanked by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and surrendered his army at Appomattox. The Five Forks junction, next to Burnt Quarter plantation, retains the rural, open setting it had during the Civil War. Much of the battlefield is now a unit of the Petersburg National Military Park.
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Abbreviations:
VLR: Virginia Landmarks Register
NPS: National Park Service
NRHP: National Register of Historic Places
NHL: National Historic Landmark
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DHR has secured permanent legal protection for over 700 historic places - including 15,000 acres of battlefield lands
DHR has erected 2,532 highway markers in every county and city across Virginia
DHR has registered more than 3,317 individual resources and 613 historic districts
DHR has engaged over 450 students in 3 highway marker contests
DHR has stimulated more than $4.2 billion dollars in private investments related to historic tax credit incentives, revitalizing communities of all sizes throughout Virginia
