Boydton, VA

Boydton is a town in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, United States. The 2020 census counted 302 residents. Boydton is the county seat of Mecklenburg County, and it is near Kerr Lake. Boydton was home the original campus of Randolph-Macon College and Boydton Academic and Bible Institute which succeeded it after its move to Ashland, Virginia. A newcomer can read Boydton through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Boydton comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The school was small and barely stayed in operation during the Civil War as its focus abruptly changed from a Methodist seminary to military cadet training. Boydton includes a historic district.