Editing McKenney, Virginia (section)

==History==
McKenney is located along a former railroad mainline. The [[Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad]], passing through McKenney from [[Petersburg, Virginia]] to Ridgeway Junction (today [[Norlina, North Carolina]]), was completed in 1900, at which point it was merged into the [[Seaboard Air Line]] (SAL).<ref>{{cite book | last1=Griffin | first1=William E. Jr. | last2=Dixon | first2=Thomas W. Jr. |title=Virginia Railroads: Railroading in the Old Dominion |date=2010 |publisher=TLC Publishing Inc |location=Forest, Virginia |isbn=9780939487974 |pages=79–87}}</ref> By 1914, the population of McKenney was estimated by the railroad to be about 300.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Freight Traffic Department, Seaboard Air Line Railway |title=Seaboard Air Line Railway Shippers Guide |date=1914 |publisher=Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Company |location=New York City |page=161 |edition=1914 |url=https://archive.org/details/seaboardairliner1914seab/page/8/mode/2up |access-date=July 6, 2021}}</ref> 

This line (dubbed the "S-line" after later mergers) continued to operate until the 1980s and was then abandoned by the CSX [[Norlina Subdivision]]. Today McKenney is isolated by this abandonment. 

[[Montrose (McKenney, Virginia)|Montrose]], the [[Sappony Church]], and [[Zehmer Farm]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> Near McKenney is a historical marker, erected by the [[Virginia Department of Historic Resources|Virginia Department of Conservation and Historic Resources]] in 1986, honoring the achievements of educator [[Sallie Jones Atkinson]].<ref name="hmdb.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=26838|title=Sallie Jones Atkinson Historical Marker|access-date=April 25, 2017}}</ref>