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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. 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. [1]
The Virginia Barrier Islands forming a line along the eastern coast of Delmarva.. The Virginia Barrier Islands are a continuous chain of long, narrow, low-lying, sand and scrub barrier islands separated from one another by narrow inlets and from the mainland by a series of shallow marshy tidal bays along the entire coast of the Virginia end of the Delmarva Peninsula.
The Matthew Jones House is a historic plantation house located on Fort Eustis in Newport News, Virginia. The house sits on a hill toward the northern end of Mulberry Island, overlooking the James River. It was built ca. 1725 as a one-and-a-half-story frame dwelling with brick chimneys and later underwent two major renovations.
Map of Tangier and its surrounding islands. Tangier Island is located in the Chesapeake Bay in Accomack County, Virginia. The island is composed of three sandy ridges divided by marshes and tidal streams. These three ridges, called West Ridge, Main Ridge, and Canton Ridge from west to east, run parallel north-to-south. [21]
St. Matthew Island Reindeer Numbers Plummet — 1966. Klein returned to St. Matthew Island in the summer of 1966 and found that the herd of 6,000 had shrunk to only 42 reindeer.
Farrar's Island is a peninsula now on the west side of the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The county operates the Dutch Gap Conservation Area and Boat Landing and as well as a living history museum, the Henricus Historical Park.
In 1976 and 1977, she was chosen as Virginia's female vocalist of the year by the Virginia Folk Music Association and, in 1989, she was inducted into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame ...
Mockhorn Island Wildlife Management Area is a 7,356-acre (29.77 km 2) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Northampton County on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.The larger of its two tracts is Mockhorn Island, a 7,000-acre (28 km 2) island separated from the mainland Eastern Shore and the Virginia Barrier Islands by shallow bays and consisting mainly of tidal marshland along the Atlantic coast; in ...