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Drewry’s Bluff, Richmond, Virginia. (Richmond Area). An Amusement Park ?? It must be sacred ground in the area. There were other battles there besides the one mentioned below. As to the end of the Confederacy (1865) Drewry’s Bluff was never captured by Union Forces.


The Richmond and Petersburg Electric Railway owned land at Drewry’s Bluff and at least planned a Park --or had one... A Trolley Park. List it here ? Your guess.


The Battle of Drewry’s Bluff, also known as the Battle of Fort Darling or Fort Drewry, took place on May 15, 1862, in Chesterfield County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Five U.S. Navy gunboats, including the ironclads USS Monitor and USS Galena, steamed up the James River to test the defenses of Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. They encountered submerged obstacles and deadly accurate fire from the batteries at Drewry's Bluff, which inflicted severe damage on Galena. The Federal Navy was turned back.