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The Old Cape Henry Light, completed in 1792, was the first federal construction project under the United States Constitution. The history of Virginia Beach, Virginia, goes back to the Native Americans who lived in the area for thousands of years before the English colonists landed at Cape Henry in April 1607 and established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown a few weeks later.
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.
Two other Chesepian towns were Apasus and Chesepioc, both near the Chesapeake Bay in what is now the independent city of Virginia Beach. Chesepioc was located in near Great Neck Point. Archaeologists and others have found numerous Native American arrowheads, stone axes, pottery, and beads in Great Neck Point.
The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years.
The Cape Henry Memorial commemorates the first landfall at Cape Henry, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, of colonists bound for the Jamestown settlement.After landing on April 26, 1607, they explored the area, named the cape, and set up a cross before proceeding up the James River.
2010 - Population: 437,994 in city; [9] 1,676,822 in Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. 2019 - The Virginia Beach shooting occurs. 2023 - An EF3 tornado rips through the northern edge of the city, damaging or destroying several homes. There was no fatalities and no injuries.
Great Neck Point is a point of land and neighborhood in Virginia Beach, Virginia on the Lynnhaven River. It is home to the Adam Keeling House and the Keeling family cemetery. Before the area was settled by the English colonists, Chesepioc was located at Great Neck Point.
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 Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.