Poplar Lawn

Poplar Lawn is a Virginia historical marker in northeast corner, Petersburg County, dedicated 1931.

Petersburg County · dedicated 1931 · Filmore and South Sycamore Streets, northeast corner

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Poplar Lawn is now known as Central Park. Here the Petersburg Volunteers camped in October 1812, before leaving for the Canadian border. Here Lafayette was greeted with music and speeches in 1824. The place was bought by the city in 1844. Volunteer companies enlisted here, April 19, 1861. In the siege of 1864-65 a hospital stood here.

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Poplar Lawn Historic District (Boundary Increase)260 ft

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