Tag: Burkeville VA

Wikipedia says: Burkeville is an incorporated town in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States. The population was 432 at the 2010 census. The source of the town name is disputed.

…The Town of Burkeville, Virginia was established in 1877.

Burkeville was named either for a tavern or for a Samuel Burke, and was formerly called “Burke’s Junction”. It was founded at the junction of the Richmond and Danville Railroad and the Southside Railroad in the mid-nineteenth century. The Southside became the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad in 1870, then a line in the Norfolk and Western Railway, and finally a line in the Norfolk Southern Railway.