Beckham is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Appomattox County,
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...
, United States. It was a
post village until some time in the 20th century.
[Henry Gannett, ''A Gazetteer of Virginia'', p. 21, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904 ]
References
Unincorporated communities in Appomattox County, Virginia
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