Welcome to Woodend ...

Woodend is located in Lunenburg County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Woodend, you might consider that their post office opened in 1899.

Time Zone: Woodend lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Woodend: 434

Adding Woodend to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Woodend in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Woodend was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Woodend post office opened in 1899.

We also found Woodend on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Virginia (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Woodend.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Lunenburg, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/