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Farmville is a town in Virginia, United States. The population was 6,845 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Prince Edward County.

Farmville is the home of Longwood University and is the town nearest to Hampden-Sydney College.

Farmville was the object of the Confederate Army's desperate push to get rations to feed its soldiers. The rations had originally been destined for Danville, but an alert quartermaster ordered the train back to Farmville. Despite a desperate advance of the cavalry commanded by Fitzhugh Lee, the Confederate army was checked by the arrival of Union cavalry commanded by Gen. Philip Sheridan, and 2 divisions of infantry. General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia found itself surrounded soon thereafter, and surrender was effected at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

Farmville is located at 37.297639, -78.395712.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 18.2 km² (7.0 mi²). 18.1 km² (7.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.2 km² (0.1 mi²) of it (0.99%) is water.

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