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Appomattox Court House and Pamplin City, VA

In October 2014, I took a photo safari to Appomattox, VA. On the way, I took some shots of old barns and buildings that you will see at the beginning of this gallery. I had never been to Appomattox and wanted to see the McLean House where Lee surrendered to Grant and the National Park at the site. I did not attempt to take every building in the park but focused on those that most interested me. You will find titles below each picture if you click on the large picture on this page and then click on the arrows to scroll through the photos.
Upon leaving Appomattox, I drove to Pamplin City, VA, about 20 miles southeast. Pamplin, population 216 in 2010, was once a classic railroad boom town. The Pamplin Pipe Factory, once the largest producer of clay pipes in the world, was headquartered there. The town fell on hard times with the decline in railroad traffic. The former main street, which sits by the train station and beside the railroad tracks, is now a "ghost" downtown, with all its former businesses vacant. A resident told me that the downtown district just folded in 1989. Articles on the Internet indicate that residents are trying to revitalize the town. Pamplin is much like Thurmond, WV, which you can see in my New River Gorge gallery and the West Virginia Safari gallery.
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Meeks Stable View
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Meeks Stable View

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  • Barn on Hwy 157 at sunrise
  • Barn on Hwy 157 -  2
  • Old tobacco barn on Hwy 157 near Hurdle Mills
  • J. B. Holeman Store in Paynes-Tavern Community, Person County
  • Cox Farm Barn - Leesburg
  • Appomattox Field
  • Witness to History - View of Appomattox National Historic Park
  • Confederate Cemetery - 18 soldiers who died in battle April 8-9, 1865, last soldiers to die under Lee's Command
  • McLean House where Lee and Grant met on April 9, 1865
  • Water well in front of McLean House
  • General Grant's place
  • General Lee's place
  • View through the dining room window, McLean House
  • Slave quarters behind the McLean House
  • McLean House Kitchen
  • Clover Hill Tavern, 1819, where Union soldiers set up printing presses to print parole passes for Confederate soldiers that allowed them to travel home unmolested.
  • Meeks Stable, located behind Plunkett-Meeks Store
  • Meeks Stable View
  • Meeks Stable view 2
  • Grave of Lafayette Meeks who died of fever in camp at 18 after fighting in the battles of Bull Run and Manassas
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