page_title: Farmville and Powhatan Railroad
section_title: Stations
hierarchical_section_title: Farmville and Powhatan Railroad / Stations
caption_attribution_description: English: Fendley Station was a water station on the Bright Hope Railroad and it has been remodeled into a Park Office at Pocahontas State Park.
context_page_description: In 1886, Randolph Harrison, of the Virginia department of Agriculture, cited Cumberland Mining Company, stating that businessmen would soon open a hotel at Lithia Springs, Farmville, VA for people seeking the healing waters. The Brighthope railway would be extended to bring them there. But instead, the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad Company built the narrow gauge rails through Cumberland County and the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad Company bought the Brighthope Railway, so the Farmville and Powhatan Railroad made the connection. In 1890, Beach Station was built with a railroad depot, some railroad shanties, a general store and an owner's house, the George Perdue House as a stop on the line.
context_section_description: The Farmville and Powhatan was a ninety three mile line after the merger. The rails had one bridge over the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Swift Creek Rail Bridge.
  Farmville
  Farmville Junction, with the Southern Railway.
  Raine's, Raines Tavern had a spur line built to the Piedmont Mines near Farmville.
  Fork, possibly road to Fork Swamp area in the Willis River.
  Eulalie, possibly a French Dairy near Bet Terrace.
  McRae
  Cumberland;
  Gray's.  They were owners of Northfield Plantation, Cumberland, Virginia, at this stop, the Junction with Northfield road, former Virginia State Route 45 northward.
  Sunnyside
  Tobaccoville
  Ballsville
  Macon
  Powhatan
  Negro Arm: Academy Rd was once called Negro Arm Road and intersects Old Buckingham Road just east of Powhatan and before the Red Lane Tavern.
  Flat Rock
  Phaup: a spur line off of Moseley's Junction;
  Moseley’s Junction: 1919 Mosley Rd where passengers could connect with the Southern Railway.
  Skinquarter
  Coalboro: A spur line off of Winterpock.
  West SW of Winterpock Bridge
  Winterpock
  Summit, possibly Crump's Store on Beach Rd.
  Perdue, now 12702 Beach Road.
  Beach: 70 Miles from Farmville.
  Fendley; a Water Station, where the steam locomotive could get water needed to make steam, was moved a few miles in modern times to become the office of Pocahontas State Park.
  Nash: Now Nash Road
  Chester Office
  A.C.L. Depot (Atlantic Coast Line Depot) a railroad depot on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad which merged with the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad. A spur line off of the Chester station to the Depot.
  R & P Electric Railway, the Chester Stop of world's first electric Trolley which ran from Richmond to Petersburg.
  Ochre; a former town named Ochre, site of Bermuda Ochre Company on a road to an ochre mine that also contained hematite next to Point of Rocks, that supplied two thirds of the yellow ochre and Venetian red pigment in the United States in the late nineteenth century.
  Bermuda Warehouse where coal could be loaded onto ships.
caption: Fendley Station remodeled into a Park Office
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