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History · Nottoway Court House

Nottoway Court House’s post office opened in 1827, and 37% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Nottoway County Courthouse. Below: maps from 1958 on.

1827first post office
1on the National Register
37%homes built before 1940
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How Nottoway Court House began

When was Nottoway Court House founded?

1827

The Nottoway Court House post office opened in 1827, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Nottoway Courthouse (1827), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 63199 years
Founding year: the first Nottoway Court House post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Nottoway Court House’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Nottoway Court House are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1827: 199 years of Nottoway Court House.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Nottoway Court House’s history is told.

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Timeline

Nottoway Court House, 1827 to 1958

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1827Post officeThe Nottoway Courthouse post office opens
  3. 1893Post officeThe Nottoway Courthouse post office closes
  4. 1893Post officeThe Nottoway post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1958On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Nottoway Court House, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Nottoway Court House yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Nottoway, or Nottoway Court House, is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Nottoway County, Virginia, United States. The population at the time of the 2010 Census was 84. This had decreased to 63 by the 2020 Census. 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 and now the Norfolk Southern Railway. Since desegregation, the village's public high school now serves the entire county's population. The Nottoway County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 19…

Its first post office opened in 1827. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 84 to 63 (-25%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Nottoway Court House, decade by decade

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On the map

Nottoway Court House on the map, 1958 to 1981

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Nottoway Court House. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Nottoway Court House on the 1958 USGS mapNottoway Court House on the 1968 USGS mapNottoway Court House on the 1974 USGS mapNottoway Court House on the 1981 USGS map1958Crewe sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Nottoway Court House.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Nottoway Court House

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1973
Nottoway County Courthouse
Nottoway County Courthouse
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Jeffersonian1
Roman Revival1
Nottoway County CourthouseJeffersonian

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Another post office, Nottoway Courthouse, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Nottoway Courthouse
1827–1893
Nottoway
1893–today
18201920today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Nottoway Court House’s history

What year was Nottoway Court House founded?

The Nottoway Court House post office opened in 1827, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Nottoway Court House?

One place: the Nottoway County Courthouse (listed 1973).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (12), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.