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The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776.. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years.
After the European discovery of North America in the 15th century, European nations competed to establish colonies on the continent. In the late 16th century, the area claimed by England was well defined along the coast, but was very roughly marked in the west, extending from 34 to 48 degrees north latitude, or from the vicinity of Cape Fear in present-day North Carolina well into Acadia.
The three points of Colonial Virginia's Historic Triangle, Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown, which are linked by the scenic Colonial Parkway A sign for the Historic Triangle on U.S. Route 60 just west of Grove, Virginia near Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park in James City County, Virginia
Virginia is located in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States. [86] [87] Virginia has a total area of 42,774.2 square miles (110,784.7 km 2), including 3,180.13 square miles (8,236.5 km 2) of water, making it the 35th-largest state by area. [88]
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), by Capt. John Smith, one of the first histories of Virginia. The written history of Virginia begins with documentation by the first Spanish explorers to reach the area in the 16th century, when it was occupied chiefly by Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Siouan peoples.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
1903 Map depicting Nansemond County (1646–1972) and other "lost counties" of Virginia. Nansemond is an extinct jurisdiction that was located south of the James River in Virginia Colony and in the Commonwealth of Virginia (after statehood) in the United States, from 1646 until 1974. It was known as Nansemond County until 1972.
Virginia counties and cities by year of establishment. The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes, totaling 133 second-level subdivisions. In Virginia, cities are co-equal levels of government to counties, but towns are part of counties.