Nottoway County/Dinwiddie County
Historical highway marker Z-39 · Nottoway County
Nottoway County Formed in 1788 from Amelia, and named for an Indian tribe. Tarleton passed through this county in 1781. Here lived William Hodges Mann, Governor of Virginia 1910-14. Dinwiddie County Formed in 1752 from Prince George, and named for Robert Dinwiddie, Governor of Virginia 1751-56. General Winfield Scott was born in this county, and in it took place the battle of Five Forks, 1865.
Conservation & Development Commission, 1928