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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.
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]
Location of Accomack County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Accomack County, Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Accomack County, Virginia, United States.
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.
A shooting Dec. 4 in Painter, Accomack County, Virginia, left a woman dead and sent a man to hospital in Norfolk.
The Eastern Shore of Virginia is the easternmost region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It consists of two counties ( Accomack and Northampton ) on the Atlantic coast. It is detached from the mainland of Virginia by the Chesapeake Bay .
The Accomac people [3] were a historic Native American tribe in Accomack and Northampton counties in Virginia. [1] They were loosely affiliated with the Powhatan Confederacy. [1] Archeological and historical record suggest trading relationships between the Accomacs and the Powhatans as well as other related groups such as the Occohannocks. [4]
The Scarborough House Archaeological Site in Accomack County, Virginia, is believed to be the location of the estate house of Edmund Scarborough, the Eastern Shore's largest landowner in the 17th century. Called Occohannock House for its location on the creek of the same name, the site is now buried in a silted-over cove called Scarborough Gut.