Hartfield is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

in Middlesex County,

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...

, United States. Hartfield is located at the junction of

Virginia State Route 3 Virginia State Route 3 is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia that extends from the town of Culpeper south and eastwardly to Gloucester in Virginia's Middle Peninsula region. For many years, a portion was named "Historyland Hi ...

and

Virginia State Route 33 State Route 33 (SR 33) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs from U.S. Route 33 and US 250 in Richmond, Virginia east to Chesapeake Boulevard in Stingray Point. SR 33 is a state-numbered eastward e ...

, east-southeast of Saluda. Hartfield has a

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with ZIP code 23071, which opened on September 5, 1889. William Churchill, patriarch of one of the first Virginia's colonial families, built Wilton House in Hartfield in 1763. Wilton House is a T-shaped Georgian plantation house near the

Piankatank River The Piankatank River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 river in the U.S. state of Virginia. Located on the Middle Peninsula, between the Rappahannock and ...

in the Tidewater region on Virginia's Middle Peninsula. It's now open as a guest house.

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Unincorporated communities in Middlesex County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia {{MiddlesexCountyVA-geo-stub