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Goodwynsville has disappeared; after the Civil War, a railroad linked
Petersburg to North Carolina through Dinwiddie County, which led to the development of McKinney, Virginia but Goodwynsville languished. The wooden plantation house that Goodwyn called "Sweden" was near collapse by 1900. The nearest town is
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Goodwyn died before the 1840 census and his six children are not named; Edwin O. Goodwyn died in 1841. The list of William H. Goodwyn's slaves in 1850 extends over a page which enumerated 35 people by race and gender and probably included the next page where the count grew to as many as 117
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Dinwiddie County was called Goodwynsville, which still existed in 1892. A descendant of the same name, Peterson M. Goodwyn, served in the 12th Virginia Infantry during the American Civil War. However, even the tavern which once stood at
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Virginia census not available online. In 1850 Edward "A." Goodwyn owned 20 enslaved persons, and William H. Goodwyn considerably more
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