Lodore, Virginia

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Coordinates: 37°26′22″N 78°01′21″W / 37.43944°N 78.02250°W / 37.43944; -78.02250
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Lodore, Virginia
FIPS code
51/46520
GNIS feature ID1477496

Lodore is a rural

SR 636
(N. Lodore Road).

History

Post office

The community was listed as a

ZIP code
23002.

Civil War

The immediate vicinity of Lodore appears to have been spared significant action during most of the

Civil War, although several skirmishes and bloody engagements were fought only a few miles to the south and west during the final days of the war in early April 1865, as General Robert E. Lee and his army continued their westward retreat and Federal troops pursued.[7] A Confederate wagon train carrying desperately needed supplies from Richmond, forced to bypass the Lodore area because wet weather had rendered the Genito bridge over the Appomattox River uncrossable, was destroyed by Union troops near Paineville, southwest of Lodore, on April 5.[8]

Tornadoes

Amelia County is located in a small Central Virginia tornado alley and has had numerous tornado touchdowns. No tornado fatalities have been reported at Lodore, but an EF1 destroyed a carport and damaged an outbuilding northeast of the community on January 12, 2018.[9]

Historic structures

Several structures near Lodore are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including:

Other historic churches at Lodore include Flower Hill Baptist, an African American congregation whose building stands on S. Genito Road just east of N. Lodore Road.

Notable residents

  • SR 609
    (Royalton Road) northeast of Lodore
  • William Branch Giles (1762 – 1830), U.S. senator and governor of Virginia

Businesses

Oakmulgee Dairy Farm, 4 miles northeast of Lodore atop a hill on

SR 637 (Giles Road) above the remnants of the former community of Giles Mill, is the oldest of several working dairy farms in Amelia County, having been in operation since 1898.[11]

References

  1. ^ Virginius Cornick Hall Jr. "Virginia Post Offices, 1798-1859", The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 81, no. 1, page 70. Virginia Historical Society, January 1973. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
  2. ^ William L. Booker. "A map of Amelia County, Virginia". Philadelphia: R.L. Barnes, circa 1850. Library of Congress permalink=https://lccn.loc.gov/2014588019. Retrieved January 5, 2022.
  3. ^ "Amelia County" (map). Confederate States Of America. Army. Dept. Of Northern Virginia. Chief Engineer's Office & D. E. Henderson (1864). [S.l.: Chief Engineer's Office, D.N.V] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, January 5, 2022.
  4. ^ D. E. Henderson, et al. "Map of Amelia Co., Virginia". Virginia Historical Society, 1860. LCCN Permalink=https://lccn.loc.gov/2012591111. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, January 5, 2022.
  5. U.S. Geological Survey
    , Bulletin No. 232, Series F: Geography, 40, page 90. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
  6. U.S. Postal Service
    . August 26, 2019. Retrieved August 13, 2023.
  7. ^ "From Richmond and Petersburg to Appomattox" (map), Historic Petersburg Foundation, Inc. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
  8. ISBN 978-1-61121-252-5
    . Retrieved January 6, 2022.
  9. ^ "Virginia Event Report: EF1 Tornado", Storm Events Database, National Centers for Environmental Information, National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Wakefield, Virginia. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
  10. LCCN 43-3789
    . Retrieved August 13, 2023.
  11. ^ "Oakmulgee Dairy Farm Inc". Dairy Farms Business Directory, Amelia Court House, VA. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. Retrieved August 13, 2023.

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

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