Point of Rocks (Chester, Virginia)

Point of Rocks is a historic plantation house near Chester, in Chesterfield County, Virginia, built about 1840. It is a one story, three bay, double pile dwelling with weatherboard siding and a low pitched hipped standing seam metal roof in the Greek Revival style, with a contributing garage also on the property. During the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of the American Civil War the site served as a Union military observation point and headquarters for General Benjamin F. Butler and as a hospital established in 1864, and troops of the 2nd United States Colored Cavalry Regiment fought a skirmish there on May 23, 1864; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.