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Accomack County is a United States county that, together with Northampton County, constitutes the Eastern Shore region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. These two counties also form the southern portion of the Delmarva Peninsula , which is bordered by the Chesapeake Bay to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
In 1663, Northampton County was split into two counties. The northern two thirds took the original Accomac name, while the southern third remained as Northampton. [2] In 1670, the Virginia Colony's Royal Governor William Berkeley abolished Accomac County, but the Virginia General Assembly re-created it in 1671.
Accomac Historic District is a national historic district located at Accomac, Accomack County, Virginia.The district encompasses 158 contributing buildings in the town of Accomac, mainly grouped into two periods of construction.
Though Accomack County was established as one of Virginia's eight original shires in 1634, the government was situated in the southern part of the Eastern Shore near Eastville until the division of the shore into two counties (Northampton and Accomack) in 1663. [6]
In this role, she oversaw the Department of Human Resource Management, the Department of Elections, the Compensation Board, the Virginia Information Technologies Agency, and the Department of General Services. [12] In December 2020, it was announced that Conner would leave her position for a job in the private sector. [13] [14]
Alyssa Nicole Taylor, 25, was reported missing from Accomack County, Virginia, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. Taylor’s family thinks she may have died in a tractor-trailer wreck on Interstate 85 in ...
Pocomoke Farm, now known as the Makemie Monument Park, is a historic site in rural Accomack County, on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The site is the location of the home and family cemetery of Francis Makemie (1658–1708), acknowledged as a founding leader of Presbyterianism in America. Now maintained as a park in honor of Makemie, the site ...
Accomac Shire, a former county in Virginia of which the town was the county seat; Accomac, Pennsylvania ... Accomack County, Virginia, the current incarnation of ...