Hartfield 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
Middlesex 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. Hartfield is located at the southern junction of
Virginia State Route 3 and
Virginia State Route 33, east-southeast of
Saluda. Hartfield has a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
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 in the Tidewater region on Virginia's Middle Peninsula. It's now open as a guest house.
References
Unincorporated communities in Middlesex County, Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Virginia
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