Two Noted Homes

Two Noted Homes is a Virginia historical marker in southwest corner, Petersburg County, dedicated 2025.

West Washington and South Market Streets, southwest corner

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South Market Street became a fashionable address for Petersburg’s elite in the mid-19th century. Two blocks south of here is the Thomas Wallace house, built in 1855, which served as Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s headquarters after the fall of Petersburg in April 1865. Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s last meeting with Grant took place there on 3 April, shortly before Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox on 9 April and Lincoln’s death six days later. Half a block south of here stood the primary post-Civil War residence of William Mahone, a Confederate major general, railroad tycoon, U.S. senator, and leader of Virginia’s biracial Readjuster Party, which won control of the General Assembly in 1879.

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Historical maps covering this location

1847 · Virginia (H. S. Tanner, 1847) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1859 · Virginia (Herman Boye, 1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1862 · Map of the battle ground near Richmond, showing plainly, every point of interest of the… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1867 · Petersburg and Five Forks (N. Michler, U.S. Engineers, 1867) (Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)
1894 · Petersburg, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Virginia (Herman Boye, 1859), 1859, covering the location of Two Noted Homes, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Virginia (Herman Boye, 1859), 1859, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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