West Point, in King William County, is at the confluence of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers
Source: ESRI, ArcGIS Online
West Point, in King William County, is at the confluence of the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers
Source: ESRI, ArcGIS Online
West Point grew after 1850, when Richmond built a railroad to the site to take advantage of the deepwater channel. The Richmond and York River Railroad was destroyed during the Civil War, but the rebuilt rail link enabled West Point to develop as a major cotton exporting port by the 1880's.1
West Point
Source: New Kent County GIS
1. Nelson Wikstrom, The Political World of a Small Town: A Mirror Image of American Politics, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993, p.11, https://books.google.com/books?id=AetM9776zpsC (last checked November 13, 2017)