Tag: Government Bakery (City Point VA)

Williss, Historical Base Maps. Appomattox Manor – City Point says: The bakery that supplied bread for the some 100,000 men at the Petersburg siege lines was by necessity a large one. The bakery at City Point consisted of an office that measured 25 by 65 feet, a 25- by 48-foot yeast house, two large bakeries, one measuring 27 by 248 feet, the other 25 by 99 feet, and a storehouse that measured 24 by 248 feet.

The office, yeast house, bakeries, and storehouse were all frame structures constructed by the government before December 1864.
in 1865 an inventory of government buildings at City Point valued the office at $1,600, the yeast house at $720, the storehouse at $2,480, the large bakery at $6,200, and the small bakery at $2,475.