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Colonial Heights is an independent city in Virginia, United States. The population was 16,897 at the 2000 census. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the City of Colonial Heights (along with the City of Petersburg) with Dinwiddie county for statistical purposes. It is located in the in Tri-Cities area of the Richmond-Petersburg region and is a portion of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

Two area attractions include Violet Bank and Swift Creek Mill.
Violet Bank, at the end of Arlington Place, is a one-story clapboard house with a hipped gambrel roof, outside chimneys - stuccoed white - and a high basement. Breaking the long line of the facade is a graceful portico, which extends from a recess created by two bays. The slender fluted columns of the portico support a roof surmounted by a solid balustrade. In this gray building, overlooking a shrub-enclosed lawn shaded by the far reaching branches of a gigantic cucumber tree, General Robert E. Lee had his headquarters from June to September 1864.

The Swift Creek Mill was purchased in August 1965 by Warner J. Callahan Jr. and Dr. Louis Rubin, both native Virginians, with the idea of converting the 305 year old building into a dinner theater. The plan was to convert the three existing floors into two dining rooms connected by a new stairwell and to be known as Swift Creek Mill Playhouse. The playhouse opened on December 2, 1965 with the Broadway musical "Carnival".

Records indicate that Swift Creek Mill was in existence as early as 1663, and is believed to be the oldest grist mill in this country.

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