A small micro cache (log only) hidden on this
small Chesterfield County property which held major significance
during two different historical periods :
Bermuda Hundred was started in 1613, after the
English settlers made peace with the Virginia natives. It was named
after the traumatic shipwreck of the "Third Supply" bringing
reinforcements to Virginia in 1609. The leaders of that expedition
were shipwrecked in Bermuda and had to take their wrecked ship
apart and build two smaller ships to finally get to Virginia.
Bermuda Hundred was initially intended to include several
"hundreds" upstream and downstream of the Appomattox River. The
Bermuda settlements were attacked severely in 1622, when the
natives abandoned their efforts at peaceful coexistence.
Bermuda Hundred never gained prominence again
until 1864 when a Union Army occupied it. The Federal troops under
Major General Benjamin F. Butler landed here, between Richmond and
Petersburg, in early May 1864. His Army of the James threatened
both cities in his drive west from landings between the James and
Appomattox Rivers. Confederates under Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard
blocked him via the construction of the
Howlett's Line. Within weeks, Butler was trapped between the
two rivers and remained there until Petersburg was evacuated in
April 1865.
Signal Tower at Bermuda Hundred Landing
