DeWitt, Virginia
Unincorporated community
DeWitt is located in Virginia
DeWitt
DeWitt
DeWitt is located in the United States
DeWitt
DeWitt
Coordinates: 37°02′20″N 77°38′36″W / 37.03889°N 77.64333°W / 37.03889; -77.64333
CountryUnited States
StateVirginia
CountyDinwiddie
Elevation
295 ft (90 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code804
GNIS feature ID1465671[1]

DeWitt is an unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States. DeWitt is located on U.S. Route 1 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of McKenney. It developed in a rural area of the county devoted to plantations worked by enslaved African Americans.

When completed in 1900, the Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad passed through DeWitt from Petersburg, Virginia to Ridgeway Junction (today Norlina, North Carolina). At that time, it was merged into the Seaboard Air Line (SAL).[2] By 1914, the population of DeWitt was estimated by the railroad to be about 200.[3]

This line (dubbed the "S-line" after later mergers) continued to operate until the 1980s. But the CSX Norlina Subdivision abandoned this portion of the line, isolating DeWitt from former trade and traffic.

The Stony Creek Plantation in DeWitt, with its original building constructed in 1750, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[4]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: DeWitt, Virginia
  2. ↑ Griffin, Jr., William E.; Dixon, Jr., Thomas W. (2010). Virginia Railroads: Railroading in the Old Dominion. Forest, Virginia: TLC Publishing Inc. pp. 79–87. ISBN 9780939487974.
  3. ↑ Freight Traffic Department, Seaboard Air Line Railway (1914). Seaboard Air Line Railway Shippers Guide (1914 ed.). New York City: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Company. p. 161. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
  4. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.


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