Do you know of Ritchieville ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Ritchieville. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Ritchieville.<1> Our sources for Ritchieville (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Ritchieville other than they indicate that Ritchieville would be found somewhere in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened in 1827 and closed in 1915. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Ritchieville ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Ritchieville: Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Ritchieville - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911)
More Orphans in Dinwiddie County ...Can you help? As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Dinwiddie County. Footnotes ...
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