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Nottoway, or Nottoway Court House, is a Virginia Trend Report 2: State and Complete Places (Sub-state 2010 Census Data).
Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed 2011-06-08. 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
Nottoway, or Nottoway Court House, is a census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...
(CDP) in and the county seat
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of Nottoway County
Nottoway County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,642. Its county seat is Nottoway. It is situated south of the James River, thus making it a part of the Southside Virginia Regio ...
, Virginia
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, United States
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. The population as of the 2010 Census was 84.Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed 2011-06-08. 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
The Norfolk and Western Railway , commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It was headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, for most of its existence. Its motto was "Precisio ...
and now the Norfolk Southern Railway
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.
Since desegregation, the village's public high school
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now serves the entire county's population.
The Nottoway County Courthouse
Nottoway County Courthouse is a historic courthouse building located at Nottoway, Virginia, Nottoway, Nottoway County, Virginia. It was built in 1843, and is a three-part Palladian plan building in the Jeffersonian or Romanesque Revival architectur ...
was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1973.
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