Lodore, Virginia

Lodore is a rural unincorporated community in northern Amelia County just south of the Appomattox River in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located along SR 616 (S. Genito Road) at its intersection with the northern terminus of SR 636 (N. Lodore Road).

Lodore, Virginia
Unincorporated community
Lodore, Virginia is located in Virginia
Lodore, Virginia
Lodore, Virginia
Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia
Lodore, Virginia is located in the United States
Lodore, Virginia
Lodore, Virginia
Lodore, Virginia (the United States)
Coordinates: 37°26′22″N 78°01′21″W
CountryUnited States
StateVirginia
CountyAmelia
Elevation
364 ft (111 m)
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP code
23002
Area code804
GNIS feature ID1477496

The community was listed as a post village called Houston before the name was changed to Lodore about 1845.[1] On Civil War-era maps, however, "Lodore" was used only as a reference to the home of one of the landowners along Genito Road; an intersection just under a mile away was noted as Giles Crossroads or Giles Chapel,[2][3][4] after William Branch Giles, U.S. senator and governor of Virginia, whose home is a short distance northeast. The Lodore post office remained in operation until at least the turn of the 20th century;[5] the area is now served by the post office several miles south at the county seat, Amelia Court House, ZIP code 23002.

The immediate vicinity of Lodore appears to have been spared significant action during most of the Civil War, although numerous 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.[6] A Confederate wagon train from Richmond, forced to bypass the Lodore area because the Genito bridge over the Appomattox River was uncrossable, was destroyed by Union troops near Paineville.[7]

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

Amelia County is located in a small Central Virginia tornado alley and has had numerous tornado touchdowns, including an EF1 that destroyed a carport and damaged an outbuilding near Lodore on Friday, January 12, 2018.[8]

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. Henry Gannett. A Gazetteer of Virginia, U.S. Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 232, Series F: Geography, 40, page 90. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1904. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
  6. "From Richmond and Petersburg to Appomattox" (map), Historic Petersburg Foundation, Inc. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
  7. Robert M. Dunkerly. To the Bitter End: Appomattox, Bennett Place, and the Surrenders of the Confederacy, page 10. Philadelphia: Casemate Publishers, 2015. ISBN 978-1-61121-252-5. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
  8. Virginia Event Report: EF1 Tornado (Report). National Centers for Environmental Information. National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Wakefield, Virginia. 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2018.


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