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Location of New Kent County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in New Kent County, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Kent County, Virginia, United States.
A view along New Kent Highway Union Army camp at Cumberland Landing, May 1862. New Kent is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of New Kent County, Virginia, United States. [1] The population as of the 2020 Census was 739. [2] Cumberland Landing, Cumberland Plantation, and the Cumberland Marsh Natural Area Preserve are near ...
The welcome centers are normally located the first few exits into a state, e.g. Exit 2 on I-84 in Connecticut entering from New York State.However, some welcome centers, visitors' centers, or service plazas are located some distance away from a state's border, serving certain cities, e.g. Johnson City, Tennessee or Oceanside, California's local Chamber of Commerce, major cities, such as New ...
New Kent County was established in 1654, as the Virginia General Assembly with the governor's consent split York County. [3] The county's name originated because several prominent inhabitants, including William Claiborne, recently had been forced from their settlement at Kent Island, Maryland, by Lord Baltimore upon the formation of Maryland. [4]
After more than eight years in the works, a new $22.7 million visitor center will open on Sept. 9, at the Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens. The 21,000 square-foot center, called the ...
Criss Cross is a Colonial style brick house built about 1690 by George Poindexter in New Kent County, Virginia. It is similar in style to neighboring Foster's Castle. George Poindexter was the immigrant founder of the Poindexters in America. Originally from Jersey, he settled his family in the Virginia Colony. [3]
In recent years, the historic site has drawn in around a million visitors annually, which was an indicator that the site needed a new visitor center. The current visitor center, located at 1610 ...
Chestnut Grove plantation where Martha Washington, wife of George Washington, was born. Chestnut Grove was an 18th-century plantation house on the Pamunkey River near New Kent Court House in New Kent County, Virginia, United States.