Farmville Historic District

Farmville's historic district covers the downtown, the tobacco warehouse area and several residential neighborhoods of a town laid out in 1798 on the south side of the Appomattox River. Main Street holds late nineteenth and early twentieth century brick commercial buildings, an antebellum Greek Revival store, a 1917 post office and the 1939 Prince Edward County Courthouse. At the northern end, large brick tobacco warehouses from the early 1900s are described as one of the best turn-of-the-century warehouse complexes in Virginia. The arrival of the Southside Railroad in the late 1850s boosted the tobacco processing industry. Residential areas include antebellum brick houses on Beech Street, the Greek Revival Paulett-Gill house of about 1858, and Queen Anne and Colonial Revival houses along High Street built for local professionals and industrialists. Churches, former schools and the 1900 Confederate Monument add variety. The district is valued as a cohesive, well-preserved record of the town's commercial, industrial and architectural development.