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Parkview: I-85 - MM 66 - NB - Squirrel Level
Parkview occupies a wooded highway corridor in south-central Virginia. It lies on Interstate 95 beside the Petersburg area, where the road network links Richmond with North Carolina and the wider East Coast. Mature woodland remains a strong presence around the broad carriageways, giving this heavily travelled setting a distinctly Virginian character. The Appomattox River runs through nearby Petersburg before joining the James River. Petersburg is closely associated with the Civil War siege of 1864–65; Petersburg National Battlefield preserves sections of the extensive defensive lines created during that campaign. Parkview is therefore less a conventional visitor district than a useful marker of the transport landscape around a city whose river crossing and rail connections helped shape its history.
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