Burke's Tavern is a Burkeville landmark which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Excerpts from its nomination are provided below, and the full nomination is available at [url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Nottoway/067-0047_Burke's_Tavern_1975_Final_Nomination.pdf]this link to the Final Nomnation[/url]

Burke's Tavern, the principal building in a tiny rural settlement on the Nottoway-Prince Edward County line, is a reminder of a flourishing period in the history of the area. The tavern was probably built by Samuel D. Burke, a prominent local politician in antebellum Prince Edward County. Although the present building was erected in the 1820s, a tavern had existed on the site since the mid-eighteenth century. The tavern business declined when the routing of the Richmond and Danville and the Southside Railroads prompted the removal of trade a few miles to what became the present Burkeville.

Charles Burke of Norfolk, a merchant, acquired the land on which the tavern stands in 1731. In 1750, his son Richard, a vestryman of the old Sandy
River Church in the present Prince Edward County, obtained a license to operate a tavern there. Soon afterwards, the Burkes also began to keep a
store at Burke's Tavern, or Burkeville, as it was sometimes called. In 1800, the tavern license was granted t o Anderson P. Filler, a prominent
local citizen who served on the Prince Edward County Court after 1810 and on the first board of county school commissioners. Miller may have been a relative of the Burkes, for in 1818, after working for Miller for a year, young Samuel D. Burke (1794-1880) became his partner in the commercial firm of Miller and Burke. An 1820 map by John Wood shows the tavern, a store, and two other buildings a t the settlement.

The ordinary license was granted to Samuel Burke alone in 1827. It is probable that he built the present tavern at about that time and remodeled
it during a prosperous period about fifteen years later. Burke was a militia colonel, local politician , and entrepreneur of some
influence. Whig meetings were frequently held at Burke's Tavern in the 1830s and 1840s. In 1840, Burke was the successful Whig candidate for the
House of Delegates from Prince Edward County. He lost a race for the state Senate in 1843.

Burke's Tavern was a t the peak of its prosperity at this time. Burke built a handsome new store building with Asher Benjamin-style detailing, which
still stands across the road from the tavern. A school was opened under the direction of William B. Featherston in 1840, and its eight or ten
boarders lived at Burke's Tavern. With the coming of the railroads, however, Burke moved his business nearer the line, to what became "new" Burkeville.