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New Kent County was established in 1654 from York County, Virginia. Kent County, England: 26,134: 210 sq mi (544 km 2) Northampton County: 131: Eastville: 1634: Original county of the Colony under England, initially named Accomac Shire. In 1642, it was renamed Northampton County. However, in 1663, Northampton County was divided into two counties.
Kentucky County, 1776–1780, as established by the Virginia General Assembly. [1]Kentucky County (aka Kentucke County), later the District of Kentucky, was formed by the Commonwealth of Virginia from the western portion (beyond the Big Sandy River and Cumberland Mountains) of Fincastle County effective 1777. [2]
Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of downtown Washington, D.C. Alexandria is the third-largest principal city of the Washington metropolitan area, which is part of the larger Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
Fincastle County (1772–1776) divided into Montgomery County, Washington County, and Kentucky County (the latter of which later became the state of Kentucky) Lower Norfolk County (1637–1691) divided in Norfolk County and Princess Anne County; Nansemond County (1646–1972) became the independent City of Nansemond (later consolidated with ...
The Spilman family was from King George County, Virginia, and they may have named their settlement after Alexandria, Virginia. [8] The family had begun developing and selling lots in the settlement by 1819, [8] the year the first post office was established. On February 22, 1834, Alexandria was formally established by an act of the state ...
The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.
Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776. In 1780, Kentucky County was divided into Fayette, Jefferson, and Lincoln counties. Kentucky was admitted as a state in 1792, when it had nine counties. [4] Each county has a legislative council called the fiscal court; [5] despite the name, it no longer has any ...
On November 30, 1927, Leonard Woods, a black coal miner and resident of Jenkins, Kentucky, was lynched on the Virginia-Kentucky border at Pound Gap. Woods had been jailed in Kentucky for the murder of 29-year-old Herschel Deaton of Coeburn, Virginia, following an altercation on November 27. On the night of the lynching, a crowd estimated ...