National Park Service ~ Hopewell, VA ~ 27-acre ~ $24,379,000

Grant’s Headquarters at City Point is a 27-acre national historic site located in Hopewell, VA that served as the headquarters of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant during the 10-month Siege of Petersburg and was the base of operations from which all Union Army activity was directed for nearly 25% of the Civil War.  City Point, one of the busiest seaports in the world for a 9-month period in 1864-65, was the site of the Ordnance Wharf explosion and destruction of the USS Kendrick, site of the first major use of freed black labor in the US, and site of the first widespread use of the telegraph.  Abraham Lincoln spent two of the last three weeks of his life at City Point before his assassination. Over the years, relentless tidal river erosion, traffic wakes, and impacts from frequent riverine floods and major storm events have caused significant damage to the City Point shoreline and bluff.  ST JOHN Principal Ed Setzler served as the AE Project Director for the scoping study and value-based schematic design alternatives selection for the rehabilitation of the historic 3,900 LF shoreline and bluff by designing retaining walls, revetments, slopes, access roads, and other shoreline protection features to preserve and stabilize from erosion caused by the James and Appomattox Rivers.