Mattoax (/məˈtoʊəks/; mə-TOE-əks) is an unincorporated community in northeastern Amelia County in the U.S. state of Virginia. Originally it was located on the right bank of the Appomattox River.

Beginning in 1851, the town had its own post office, listed as "Appomattox Depot" or "Appomattox River" at first. The name "Mattoax Depot" appeared as early as 1852, and in 1855 the post office was renamed to match, with the spelling "Matoax" as a common variant.[1] Mattoax was also a stop, at Milepost 26.8, along the former Richmond & Danville Railroad, later the Southern Railway.[2] The Mattoax post office was listed in gazetteers at least as late as 1922;[3] both it and the train station, however, have since been demolished.

References

  1. ^ Virginius Cornick Hall, Jr. "Virginia Post Offices, 1798-1859", The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 81, no. 1, January 1973, pages 52 and 76. Virginia Historical Society. Retrieved July 19, 2023.
  2. ^ Stewart, John (December 24, 2014). Jefferson Davis's Flight from Richmond: The Calm Morning, Lee's Telegrams, the Evacuation, the Train, the Passengers, the Trip, the Arrival in Danville and the Historians' Frauds. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1640-7.
  3. ^ Angelo Heilprin and Louis Heilprin, editors. Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World, page 1137. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1922. Retrieved July 28, 2023.

37°25′38″N 77°52′21″W / 37.42722°N 77.87250°W / 37.42722; -77.87250


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