Lee Memorial Park

Legends Park
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
Entrance to Lee Memorial Park
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Location	1832 Johnson Rd., Petersburg, Virginia
Coordinates	37°11′57″N77°24′24″W / 37.19917°N 77.40667°W / 37.19917; -77.40667
Area	300 acres (120 ha)
Built	1921 (1921)
Architect	Petersburg Garden Club
Architectural style	naturalistic landscape
NRHP reference No.	00000896 [1]
VLR No.	123-0083
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	August 14, 2000
Designated VLR	June 14, 2000 [2]

Legends Park (Formerly Lee Memorial Park) ^[3] is a historic park and national historic district located at Petersburg, Virginia. The district includes two contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two contributing structures. They are the park superintendent's house, the bathhouse, Willcox Lake reservoir, the Civil War earthworks, the park's system of roadways, paths and trails, the park's general topography and the Lee Park Wild Flower and Bird Sanctuary created by the Works Progress Administration between 1935 and 1940. ^[4] As part of the W.P.A. project, Petersburg artist Bessie Niemeyer Marshall painted 238 watercolors of Lee Park herbarium specimens.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
3. "Petersburg renames park honoring Confederate general". WRIC. July 21, 2020.
4. Donald G. Jones (March 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lee Memorial Park" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources.