Nottoway, Virginia

Nottoway, or Nottoway Court House, is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Nottoway County, Virginia, United States.^[1] The population at the time of the 2010 Census was 84.^[2] This had decreased to 63 by the 2020 Census.^[3]

Nottoway was originally known as Lewistown. Nottoway was a stop on the Southside Railroad in the mid-nineteenth Century. This became the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad in 1870 and then a line in the Norfolk and Western Railway and now the Norfolk Southern Railway.^[4]

Since desegregation, the village's public high school now serves the entire county's population.

The Nottoway County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[5]

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1. ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
2. ^ Virginia Trend Report 2: State and Complete Places (Sub-state 2010 Census Data). Archived 2012-07-11 at archive.today Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed 2011-06-08.
3. ^ "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
4. ^ Bright, David L. (2015). "Confederate Railroads - South Side". Confederate Railroads. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
5. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.