Hopewell is an independent town surrounded by Prince George's County and the Appomattox River in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Although Jamestown is no longer inhabited, Hopewell's City Point is one of the oldest continuously inhabited English settlements in the United States and has the largest population of all English settlements continuously living in the United States.

Major historical events took place in this part of the country, including the relocation of the 10-month siege of nearby Petersburg by General Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle of Appomattox. During the Civil War, City Point was used as a headquarters by Union General, the US Army and President Lincoln during his visit to Hopewell in 1865. The Grant headquarters he visited was on the property of Richard Eppes, who at the beginning of the war was growing wheat and other grains and holding 130 slaves, his wife and children.

This property includes the former family house Eppes and a small number of other properties in the area. This property included Old Hopewell, City Point Hotel and several other buildings in and around the city. These objects include the original town hall, a few houses, an office building, two churches and other buildings.

Hopewell was founded as an independent city in 1916, but like most cities in Virginia, it was never incorporated as a city. Hopewells was incorporated in 1912 into a town of the same name as the former town of Old Hopewells, Virginia. Hopewsell was assigned to the Virginia Department of Public Works, a division of Virginia Power and Light, in 1916 and to the Virginia State Police in 1917. Like most of the state's cities, the city was reincorporated into Chesterfield County, Virginia, in 1936, but unlike most of the cities in Va. and Virginia. She had never been involved in the cities.

In 1916, the city of Hopewell annexed the neighboring city of City Point, allowing it to expand and prosper. In 1916 and 1916-17, it annexed neighboring cities like City Point, allowing it to expand and thrive as an independent city in Virginia.

Hopewell News, which is managed and operated by HPC Media, is a local newspaper called News - Patriot, which reports on local politics, business, education, health, arts and culture in the city of Hopewell, Virginia. City of City Point is a daily newspaper for city and county residents that covers local government, schools, parks and recreational facilities, community events and other local news.

Hopewell underwent a modern development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries after the First World War. After DuPont left the city after World War I and World War II, relocating its manufacturing operations elsewhere and specializing in other products, it became a ghost town until 1923, when the Tubize Corporation established a plant at DuPont's old site. After World War I and over 2,000 years of industrial development, Hopewells became ghost towns by 1924, after Du Pont abandoned them after World War II and 3,500 years of industrial development and moved their production facilities elsewhere and specialized in other products, and again in 1923, when the Tubize Corporation established the plant on the older DuPhillips site, the first of its kind in Virginia.

Another plant specializing in the production of a variety of other products has also been built on a part of the old DuPont site. A plant was also built on a part of an old DuPont site, the first of its kind in Virginia and the second in America.

DuPont developed Hopewell as part of the Eppes plantation and it is home to several large chemical plants owned by WestRock and a paper mill, both owned and managed by West Rock. Du Pont is no longer active in the city, but several other production companies are in that part of the state. HopEWell is and was home to a number of paper mills, all owned or controlled by West Rock, the owner and operator of these mills.

Hopewell had the building moved in and built after DuPont created the neighborhood known as "Village B" or "The Village." It has had houses stripped off and built after DuPont created the neighborhood, and it is known as Village B or Village Village.

African Americans in Hopewell were subjected to Jim Crow segregation, as was the case in most Southern cities. Much of the middle class moved to neighboring Prince George's and Chesterfield counties, and much of that has since moved away. African Americans - American population, but as a result it has moved from the city to neighboring Princesville, Prince William County and Virginia Beach.

Hopewell still struggles as a major industrial city, but it ranks 127th out of 133 Virginia towns in the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Hopewells is still struggling as an important industrial city and for its status as one of the largest cities in the country with more than 1,000 inhabitants.