Tag: USMRR Construction Corps Gang Houses (City Point VA)

Williss, Historical Base Maps. Appomattox Manor – City Point says: Northwest across the railroad tracks from Hospital Hill were the “Gang Houses – Construction Corps.” These were, in all probability, quarters for at least some members of the Military Railroad Construction Corps. As indicated in contemporary photographs, there were eight 1-1/2-story frame structures built by the railroad construction corps. A most probable date of construction would have been late fall 1864. Cost of these buildings which measured approximately twenty-five by seventy feet, was $12,216.