Talk:Appomattox Court House National Historical Park

Buildings listed for deletion

 * Articles for deletion/Woodson Law Office and Jones Law Office - NVO (talk) 07:32, 31 January 2009 (UTC)

Palm Sunday April 9, 1865
I added "Palm Sunday April 9, 1865". The 'coincidence' of it being Palm Sunday was not lost on the highly religious Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and his staff, other Christians at the McClean Home, and the primarily Christian nation - North and South. Five days later, President Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday and died the next morning, which, again, was perceived as very 'coincidental' by the nation when they learned of it in their Easter Sunday newspapers. - Brad Watson, Miami 71.196.11.183 (talk) 14:32, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

LOCATION:
The location is misleading in several ways. It is actually as much north as it is east of the current courthouse and it is barely two miles. Further, the article seems to indicate that the depot was just past the original town whereas it was south of the old town and never came within a mile of it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.144.139.75 (talk) 20:07, 2 September 2014 (UTC)


 * According to the reference: The site of the village, three miles (5 km) southwest of the present town of Appomattox, was made a national monument in 1940 and a national historical park in 1954.
 * Do you have another reference that shows your point? Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:12, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Looking at Google maps, it appears to me that the Historic Park is about 3 miles east of the town of Appomattox. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:27, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

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Name of town -- in lede
I boldly changed the WP:LEDE with the edit comment: "changed to make it clearer that Appomattox Court House is the name of the village, not the name of the court building.  I believe many mistakenly believe the surrender happened in a court house rather than in the McClean house. (see National Park FAQ)." The National Park FAQ page starts with:
 * Where's the courthouse, where the surrender took place? The surrender occurred in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia in a private home owned by the McLean family. In Virginia many of the towns which were county seats were called "Court House". The building is spelled courthouse (one word) and the town is Court House (two words).

I admit my change makes the first two lines a bit wordy. My concern with having them too long is that it pushes back the language about the the surrender, which is why the site is so important. There might be other solutions. Regardless, I do feel that this distinction between court, village and private house should be made clear fairly early on--possibly after mention of the battle and surrender. The October 2022 version had this language:
 * The McLean House was the site of the surrender conference, but the village itself was named for the presence nearby of what is now preserved as the Old Appomattox Court House.

That also works. --David Tornheim (talk) 04:46, 21 March 2024 (UTC)