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Pamplin City is an incorporated town that straddles the line between Appomattox and Prince Edward counties in south-central Virginia, and its Appomattox County portion is part of the Lynchburg metropolitan area.

The settlement appears in public records as early as the 1820s under the name Merriman's Shop.

In 1854 the community was renamed for Nicholas Calvin Pamplin, who donated a large tract of his land to the railroad for its projected line through the village.

Situated where two major Norfolk and Western rail lines converged, Pamplin became a 19th-century railroad boom town with such high expectations that its official name was made Pamplin City.

Pamplin City was incorporated by an act approved March 24, 1874.

The Pamplin Pipe Factory, built about 1880 beside Business U.S. 460, was once the largest producer of clay smoking pipes in the world, turning out about one million pipes per month in its heyday before closing in February 1952; the factory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

The 2020 census counted just 138 people in 89 households in Pamplin City, within a town area of only about 0.32 square miles.

Pamplin City's population peaked at 394 residents in the 1970 census before the decline of the railroad era shrank the town.

Pamplin City's former Norfolk and Western depot, built in the 1920s and later sold to the town by the railroad for one dollar, was renovated with state and federal grants and now houses the town office, a community meeting and event space, and a library branch.

The old Burkeville-to-Pamplin rail line was converted into High Bridge Trail State Park, and an extension of the trail into Pamplin City's town limits, ending within walking distance of its Main Street business district, opened on April 22, 2024.