1943 Map of Mc Kenney

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Nottoway River meanders across the central landscape, acting as a natural divider between Dinwiddie and Brunswick counties during the early 1940s. This survey, published by the Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army during wartime, reveals a deeply rural region organized around small settlements like Mc Kenney and Smoky Ordinary. The area is densely punctuated by social cornerstones, with dozens of family-named schools and churches such as Drumgoole School, Goodwyn School, and Big Bethel Church scattered throughout the woods and fields.