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unusual facts about Dinwiddie County, VA



Appomattoc

The Appomattoc (also spelled Appamatuck, Apamatic, and numerous other variants) were a historic tribe of Virginia Indians speaking an Algonquian language, and residing along the lower Appomattox River, in the area of what is now Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Chesterfield and Dinwiddie Counties in present-day southeast Virginia.

Dinwiddie County, Virginia

Several other engagements were fought in Dinwiddie County, including the Battle of Dinwiddie Court House, Battle of Sutherland's Station, and Battle of White Oak Road.

The Union army cut the rail line four days later, after capturing Five Forks on April 1, 1865, at the Battle of Five Forks.

Patrick Magruder

He was buried on his family’s ancestral estate, Sweden, near Petersburg in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.


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