It is primarily a House Museum, with visitors touring the four interior rooms, which portray a collection of medical supplies, a standard parlor, Union soldier gear, and a bedroom. The site is now officially known as 'The Civil War at Endview: A Living History Museum'.

The post Civil War addition to the house was torn down, and the lost chimney rebuild so as to make the building reach its 1860 appearance. Įndview was acquired by the City of Newport News in 1995. Endview was briefly used as a field hospital by the Confederacy during the 1862 Battle of Dam Number One (part of the Peninsula Campaign). Humphrey Harwood Curtis, Jr., one of two doctors in Warwick County, Virginia. Military use again came during the American Civil War, when the building was occupied by Dr. General Thomas Nelson, Jr.'s Virginia Militia used it as a resting place on September 28, 1781, en route to Yorktown shortly before the surrender of the British troops under Lord Cornwallis. The house and grounds were used by military forces during the Revolutionary War. 362 Yorktown Road, Newport News, Virginiaģ7☁2′12″N 76☃4′30″W / 37.20333°N 76.57500°W / 37.20333 -76.57500 Coordinates: 37☁2′12″N 76☃4′30″W / 37.20333°N 76.57500°W / 37.20333 -76.57500Įndview Plantation (Harwood Plantation) is an 18th-century plantation which is located on Virginia State Route 238 in the Lee Hall community in the northwestern area of the independent city of Newport News, Virginia.Įarlier known as the Harwood Plantation, the house was built in 1769 by William Harwood along the Great Warwick Road, which linked the colonial capital of Williamsburg with the town of Hampton on the harbor of Hampton Roads.

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