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The city owes it existence to its site overlooking the James and Appomattox Rivers. The oldest part of the Hopewell, City Point, was established in 1613 by Sir Thomas Dale. City Point was a separate city until it agreed to merge with Hopewell early in the twentieth century.
During the American Civil War, the city was the headquarters of Ulysses S. Grant during the Siege of Petersburg in 1864 and 1865. The City Point Railroad played an important role, and later became the oldest portion of the Norfolk and Western Railway.
Hopewell was developed by the duPont Company in 1914. DuPont first built a dynamite factory and then switched to the manufacture of guncotton during World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of.
According to the United States Census BureauThe United States Census Bureau (officially Bureau of the Census is a part of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is defined in the Constitution of the United States, which directs that the population be enumerated at least once every te, the city has a total area of 28.0 km˛ (10.8 mi˛This article is about the unit of measure. In England, the Square Mile is a traditional name for the City of London. A square mile (symbol sq. or mi is an imperial unit which is the area of a square whose side is one mile (or 5,280 feet). A square mile is). 26.5 km˛ (10.2 mi˛) of it is land and 1.5 km˛ (0.6 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 5.36% water.
As of the censusA census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). It can be contrasted with sampling in which information is only obtained from a subset of a population. As such it is a method used f 2The following is a list of sources used in the creation of Wikipedia articles on various geographic topics and locations, such as cities, counties, states, and countries. These sources are cited within the thousands of articles which link to this page. of 2000, there are 22,354 people, 9,055 households, and 6,075 families residing in the city. The population densityIf you were linked from a country article: the density there is based on land area, see below Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. However it is most frequently applied to living organisms. Population density is usually ex is 842.9/km˛ (2,182.3/mi˛). There are 9,749 housing units at an average density of 367.6/km˛ (951.7/mi˛). The racial makeup of the city is 62.29% White, 33.48% Black or African American, 0.35% Native American, 0.81% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 1.23% from other races, and 1.77% from two or more races. 2.91% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 9,055 households out of which 32.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.6% are married couples living together, 21.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 32.9% are non-families. 27.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.43 and the average family size is 2.94.
In the city the population is spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 28.6% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 14.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 87.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 82.2 males.
The median income for a household in the city is $33,196, and the median income for a family is $38,043. Males have a median income of $30,835 versus $23,398 for females. The per capita income for the city is $16,338. 14.9% of the population and 12.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 21.6% of those under the age of 18 and 10.4% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.