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A new map of Virginia, Maryland, and the improved parts of Pennsylvania & New Jersey, 1685 map of the Chesapeake region by Christopher Browne. The Chesapeake Colonies were the Colony and Dominion of Virginia, later the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Province of Maryland, later Maryland, both colonies located in British America and centered on the Chesapeake Bay.
The colonies exported naval stores, fur, lumber and tobacco to Britain, and food for the British sugar plantations in the Caribbean. The culture of the Southern and Chesapeake Colonies was different from that of the Northern and Middle Colonies and from that of their common origin in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Museum at Colonial Beach: Colonial Beach: Westmoreland: Chesapeake Bay: Local history: Operated by the Colonial Beach Historical Society [33] Museum of Bank History at Suntrust Bank: Staunton: Staunton: Shenandoah Valley: Industry - Banking [2] Museum of Charlotte County: Charlotte Court House: Charlotte: Southern: Local history: website ...
The second successful English colonial settlement in the New World, Henricus was opposite to the Native American village of Arrohateck. At the time, the First Anglo-Powhatan War was raging, and the Indian tribes of Virginia offered continuous resistance to colonial settlement, largely orchestrated by native leader Nemattanew — or as the colonists knew him, "Jack-of-the-Feather".
Lee Hall was dropped from the Colonial, now renamed to New England Express, in April 1995, [13] after which, the building was used as a railcar maintenance facility. The Lee Hall Train Station Foundation was founded in 2000 to help preserve the building; due to this, the Peninsula Model Railroad Club moved out of the building in 2001.
Location of Chesapeake in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Chesapeake, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Chesapeake, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
1730 Chesapeake rebellion (British Chesapeake Colonies, suppressed) 1731 Samba rebellion ... (free) museum during designated hours (with an explanatory video tour ...
Wilton House Museum is a museum in a historic house located in Richmond, Virginia. Wilton was constructed c. 1753 by William Randolph III , son of William Randolph II , of Turkey Island . Wilton was originally the manor house on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2 ) tobacco plantation known as "World's End" located on the north bank of the James River ...