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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. From 1972 to 1974, a period of eighteen months, it was the independent city of Nansemond.
The Nansemond are the Indigenous people of the Nansemond River, a 20-mile-long tributary of the James River in Virginia. Nansemond people lived in settlements on both sides of the Nansemond River where they fished (with the name "Nansemond" meaning "fishing point" in Algonquian), harvested oysters, hunted, and farmed in fertile soil.
The area around Suffolk, Virginia, which is now an independent city in the Hampton Roads region in the southeastern part of the state, was originally inhabited by Native Americans. At the time of European contact, the Nansemond people lived along the river later known by the same name. The area was first explored by Jamestown colonists led by ...
The Nansemond River is a 19.8-mile-long (31.9 km) [1] tributary of the James River in Virginia in the United States. Virginian colonists named the river for the Nansemond tribe of Native Americans, who had long inhabited the area. [2] They continue as a federally recognized tribe in Virginia. The river begins at the outlet of Lake Meade north ...
Bennett Creek (Nansemond River tributary) Coordinates: 36°51′12″N 76°29′0″W. Bennett Creek[1] or Bennett's Creek is a 7.3-mile-long (11.7 km) [2] tributary of the Nansemond River in Suffolk, Virginia. Pumps from the Army Corps of Engineers’ hopper dredge Currituck filters sand from Bennett's Creek to increase the depth from 2 to 6 ...
Holland, Virginia. Coordinates: 36°40′53″N 76°46′49″W. Holland, Virginia was an incorporated town in the southwestern section of Nansemond County, Virginia. [1] Since 1974, it has been a community in the independent city of Suffolk, Virginia following a political consolidation which formed Virginia's largest city in geographic area.
The Nansemond National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located along the Nansemond River in Suffolk, Virginia. It is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as a satellite of Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. In 1973 about 207 acres (0.84 km 2) of salt marsh were transferred to the ...
The Dumpling Island Archeological Site is a Late Woodland period archaeological site on Dumpling Island in Suffolk, Virginia, United States. The site encompasses the remains of a Native American village associated with the Nansemond people. The island was identified by explorer John Smith as a "Chaukie Hand" because of the large shell middens ...