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Some maps of Virginia do not include the Eastern Shore. Encyclopedia Virginia ' s logo began depicting the region in 2018, after the inauguration of Ralph Northam, the second Governor of Virginia from the Eastern Shore. [7] Geographically removed from the rest of Virginia, it has had a unique history of settlement and development influenced by ...
Nathan F. Cobb, Sr. of Eastham, Massachusetts, came to Northampton County, Virginia. in October 1837, where he opened a store on the seaside road.In 1839 he purchased Sand Shoals Island, an uninhabited barrier island south of the Great Machipongo Inlet now known as Cobb Island, from a local fisherman known as "Hard-Time" Fitchett for a $100 cash down payment and a two-horse wagon-load of salt ...
Cape Charles, located close to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, was founded in 1884 as a planned community by railroad and ferry interests.In 1883, William Lawrence Scott became president of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company (NYP&N), and purchased three plantations comprising approximately 2,509 acres from the heirs of former Virginia Governor ...
At the regular meeting of the Accomack-Northampton Transportation District Commission held at the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce Building, Melfa, Virginia, on Monday, November 6, 2017, at 5:30 p.m., BCR President Alex Parry "reported that the DCP traffic (butane) has been lost from the Little Creek side; however, he is hopeful that other new ...
Exmore, Va. used to be a ghost town-or close to it. Set on Virginia's Eastern Shore, a landscape of farming land that stretches for acres surrounded by the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean ...
Northampton County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,282. [1] Its county seat is Eastville. [2] Northampton and Accomack Counties are a part of the larger Eastern Shore of Virginia. The county is the center of the late Eocene meteor strike that resulted in the Chesapeake Bay impact ...
In the U.S. state of Virginia, US 13 runs north–south through the Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore regions of the state, using the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel to get between the two. In the Hampton Roads area, it uses Military Highway to bypass the city centers. It is most usually a four-lane highway, sometimes up to freeway or expressway ...
The Eastern Lake County Chamber of Commerce serves the communities of Concord Township, Fairport Harbor, Grand River, Leroy Township, Madison Township, Madison Village, North Perry Village ...