Kingsville, Virginia

Kingsville
Unincorporated community
Kingsville Show map of Virginia Kingsville Show map of the US Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia
Coordinates: 37°14′46″N 78°26′38″W / 37.24611°N 78.44389°W / 37.24611; -78.44389Coordinates: 37°14′46″N 78°26′38″W / 37.24611°N 78.44389°W / 37.24611; -78.44389
Country	United States
State	Virginia
County	Prince Edward
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)

Kingsville is an unincorporated community in Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States. It sits on the intersection of VA 133 and US 15^[1]

Historical Significance

Before the American Revolution, Kingsville was the site of "King's Tavern."
The British cavalryman, Banastre Tarleton, raiding, camped in Kingsville in 1781, in the same year sick and wounded French soldiers were brought to this Kingsville from Yorktown. Seventy of them are buried in Kingsville.
Kingsville is the site of the colonial church of which Archibald McRoberts was minister.

References

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

Municipalities and communities of Prince Edward County, Virginia, United States

County seat: Farmville

Towns	Farmville‡ Pamplin City‡

CDP	Hampden-Sydney

Unincorporated communities	Allens Mill Blake Village Briery Bruceville Darlington Heights Elam Five Forks Green Bay Kingsville Meherrin Moran Prospect Redd Shop Rice Scholfield Shields Tuggle Virso Worsham

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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