Appomattox River Canal Navigation System Map – 1814

A Gazetteer of Virginia and West Virginia – 1904
A brief description of the Battersea Canal is on page 20.

Acts Passed at a General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia – 1877
An Act relating to the canal is on page 304.

Annual Report of the Board of Public Works to the General Assembly ..., Volume 5 – 1829
An excerpt of the Governor's 1826 report to the General Assembly, regarding the status of the navigation system begins on page 110; tolls of the Upper Appomattox Company are on page 186; the financial returns of the Lower Appomattox Company are on page 431; an Act relating to the Lower Appomattox Company begins on page 549.

Appomattox Canal
A brief history and description of the canal and its successor: the Battersea   Historical and current maps.

Appomattox Riverside Park
Includes a brief history of the canal.

Artisan Workers in the Upper South
A brief history and description of the canal is on page 22.

Chronicling America
A set of historical newspaper articles which make reference to the canal.

Early Navigation and Power on the Appomattox River
Includes a brief history of the Upper Appomattox navigation system.  Current photos.

Historical and Industrial Guide to Petersburg, Virginia
A brief history of the canal and the Upper Appomattox Company begins on page 75.

Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
A brief history and description begins on page 151.

Lower Appomattox Navigation
A brief history and description of the lower navigation system.

Petersburg Harbor and Port
Includes a brief history and description of the canal.

Shadows of a bustling past haunt Appomattox’s quiet shores

Includes a brief history and description of the navigation system.

Upper Appomattox Canal Navigation System
A brief history and description of the system.  Map, historical and current photos.

Upper Appomattox Navigation
A brief history and description of the navigation system.