Official Name: | Trammel, Virginia |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Virginia#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Trammel |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Virginia |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Dickenson |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 1749 |
Coordinates: | 37.0144°N -82.2939°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 24237 |
Area Code: | 276 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 1477119 |
Trammel is an unincorporated community in Dickenson County, Virginia, United States. Trammel is located along Virginia State Route 63 7.6miles north of St. Paul. Trammel had a post office with ZIP code 24289 from October 8, 1919, to November 16, 2002; the community is now part of ZIP code 24237.[1] [2]
Trammel was initially settled by a farmer named Hiram Keith. The first school in Trammel, known as the Delphia School, opened in 1898. A new schoolhouse was constructed for the Delphia School in 1924. The Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railway began building a line through Dickenson County in 1913 and drove the last spike in Trammel in 1915; service to the community began in 1916.[3] Coal mining was the primary industry at Trammel in the 1920s.[4]