Rawlings, Virginia

Rawlings is an unincorporated community located in Brunswick County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.

Rawlings is home of Lake Phoenix, a scuba park and family campground[1] close to Davis Travel Center.

The Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad, passing through Rawlings 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).

[3] The line (dubbed the "S-line" after later mergers) continued to operate until the 1980s, and today Rawlings is along the abandoned portion of the CSX Norlina Subdivision.

The racial makeup of Rawlings, VA is 45% African American, 54% White, and < 1% Hispanic and Asian races.