DeWitt 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 Dinwiddie County,

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, United States. DeWitt is located on U.S. Route 1, northeast of

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. 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 to Ridgeway Junction (today

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). At that time, it was merged into the Seaboard Air Line (SAL). By 1914, the population of DeWitt was estimated by the railroad to be about 200. This line (dubbed the "S-line" after later mergers) continued to operate until the 1980s, but the CSX

Norlina Subdivision The Norlina Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. State of North Carolina. The line currently runs from Norlina, North Carolina, to Raleigh, North Carolina, for a total of 51.2 miles. At its north end the line com ...

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

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in 2003.

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