Short answers, pulled from the story.
Lee surrendered to Grant in the home of Wilmer McLean in the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on the 9th of April, 1865. The site is three miles east of Appomattox Station and is now preserved as Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, administered by the National Park Service.
The town was first named "Nebraska" in 1855, with Samuel D. McDearmon serving as its first postmaster. In 1895 it was renamed "West Appomattox" before eventually taking the name Appomattox.
Each April, the park lights a lantern for each of the 4,600 enslaved people freed in Appomattox County alone when the Civil War ended. The ceremony commemorates the surrender on the 9th of April, 1865, and what followed from it.
Johnston surrendered 98,270 Confederate troops on the 26th of April, 1865, which was the largest single surrender of the entire Civil War. Lee had surrendered more than two weeks earlier, on the 9th of April, at Appomattox Court House.
As of the 2020 census, Appomattox had a population of 1,919 people. The town covers 2.2 square miles and is the county seat of Appomattox County.
Appomattox Station was a stop on the Southside Railroad, running between Petersburg and Lynchburg. In 1870 the railroad became the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad, and it later became part of the Norfolk and Western Railway and then the Norfolk Southern Railway.