Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Hopewell, VA

Hopewell is an independent city in Virginia, surrounded by Prince George County at the confluence of the James and Appomattox Rivers, and it forms part of the Tri-Cities area of the Richmond metropolitan area.

City Point, the oldest part of Hopewell, was established in 1613 by Sir Thomas Dale and was first known as 'Bermuda City.'

Hopewell and City Point together are considered the second-oldest continuously inhabited English settlement in the United States, after Hampton, since Jamestown is no longer inhabited.

During the Civil War, Union general Ulysses S. Grant made City Point his headquarters for the Siege of Petersburg in 1864–1865, basing himself at Appomattox Manor, a plantation house that President Abraham Lincoln visited.

The City Point Railroad, built in 1838 between City Point and Petersburg and used as a key part of Grant's siege strategy, is considered the oldest portion of the Norfolk and Western Railway, now part of Norfolk Southern.

Hopewell's modern boom began in 1914, when the DuPont Company built a dynamite factory and developed the area as 'Hopewell Farm'; the village exploded from a hamlet of about 400 people in 1916 to more than 20,000 within a few short months, earning it the nickname 'Wonder City.'

Hopewell was incorporated directly as an independent city on July 1, 1916, without ever having been incorporated as a town first, and it annexed the neighboring town of City Point in 1923.

Hopewell had a population of 23,033 at the 2020 census, up from 22,591 at the 2010 census.

Census Bureau survey figures for 2020–2024 count about 9,255 households in Hopewell, averaging about 2.46 people per household.

Hopewell was the site of the Kepone disaster: a plant in the city was the world's only manufacturer of the insecticide Kepone from 1966 to 1975, and its dumping into the James River led to a fishing ban from Richmond to the Chesapeake Bay that lasted 13 years.