Business View Magazine l January 2023

216 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 etersburg, a city of 33,000 in the Commonwealth of Virginia, is located on the Appomattox River, some 21 miles south of Richmond. Incorporated in 1784, it became a city in 1850. Petersburg grew as an early transportation hub for the area, profiting from its position as the final destination on the Upper Appomattox Canal Navigation System. Farmers would take their wheat and corn to Petersburg, via river and canal, where their goods would be unloaded and P TING THE RWARD