Dyke, Virginia

Dyke is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Virginia, United States.

[1] Binghams United Methodist Church, formerly known as Austin's Meeting House, established in 1796, is on the north side of the Lynch River.

Dyke is believed to have been named in the 19th century after a family of enslaved people with roots in West Africa who lived here.

[4] Among the early settlers in Dyke were families named Parrott, Gibson, Austin, Shifflet, Ogg and White.

The inventory of James White's estate in 1825 listed the names and values of twenty enslaved human beings: "Tom, $425.

"[5] His son James Early White succeeded and in 1852 upon the death of his mother, Susanna Bourne, he moved to Illinois and then to farmland north of St. Catharine, Missouri.