Whitmell, Virginia

Whitmell Farm-Life School in Pittsylvania County, Virginia

Whitmell is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is the location of the now-closed historic Whitmell Farm-Life School named for Whitmell P. Tunstall, a lawyer and state legislator.

It was originally named Chestnut Grove. An 1855 gazetteer listed the village as having "3 stores, several tobacco factories, and about 100 inhabitants".^[1]

References

↑ Edwards, Richard (1855). Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia. Richmond, Virginia: Richard Edwards. p. 207.

U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Whitmell, Virginia

Municipalities and communities of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States

County seat: Chatham

Towns	Chatham Gretna Hurt

CDPs	Blairs Motley Mount Hermon

Unincorporated communities	Ajax Andersons Mill Bachelors Hall Banister Berry Hill Beverly Heights Birnam Wood Brights Brosville Brutus Buford Callahans Hills Callands Cartersville Cascade Cedar Forest Cedar Hill Chalk Level Climax Coles Hill Dry Fork Dundee Ebenezer Eldon Knolls Fairfield Park Farmers Flint Hill Fox Hollow Galveston Gilmer Terrace Glenland Glenwood Grady Green Acres Green Pond Greenfield Grit Halifax Hills Henrys Mill Hermosa Hill Grove Hinesville Hollys Mill Hollywood Hopewell Java Jones Mill Keeling Kentuck Lakewood Laniers Mill Laurel Grove Leaksville Junction Level Run Lucks Lumpkin Forest Markham Motleys Mill Mt. Airy Mount Cross Mountain Hill Museville Natal New Mount Cross Oak Hill Oak Hills Oak Ridge Oakland Olde Hunting Hills Peytonsburg Pickaway Pickerel Pine Ridge Pittsville Pleasant Gap Pleasant Grove Pullens Ray Red Oak Hollow Redeye Renan Riceville Ridgecrest Ridgeway Ringgold Rondo Sandy River Sharon Sheva Shockoe Smothers Soapstone Sonans Spring Garden Stony Mill Straightstone Surry Hills Sutherlin Swansons Mill Swansonville Sycamore Tightsqueeze Toshes Transco Village Turkey Fork Vadens Mill Vance Vandola Weal West Fork Whitfield Whitmell Whittles Whittletown Witt Woodlake Park Woodlawn Woodlawn Heights Worlds Wyndover Woods

Coordinates: 36°42′08″N 79°31′25″W / 36.70222°N 79.52361°W / 36.70222; -79.52361

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