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Mathews County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,533. [1] Its county seat is Mathews. [2] Located on the Middle Peninsula, Mathews County is included in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Green Hill is a historic plantation house and national historic district located near Long Island, Campbell County, Virginia.The main house is a two-story, five-bay, brick structure with a gable roof, modillioned cornice and two interior end chimneys.
At that time, Farrar's Island was slightly less than 700 acres (280 hectares) and lay about 15 miles (24 km) south of the James River fall line at Richmond, Virginia. Due to its strategic location on the river, the peninsula's neck became the site of the earliest English settlements in Virginia, Henricus, founded by Sir Thomas Dale in 1611, but ...
Parramore Island and Revel Island - owned by the Nature Conservancy. These "two" islands are now fused into one, though the label "Revel Island" persist on maps. Parramore is one of the few islands in the chain with still-present maritime forest. [6] [8] Hog Island - Location of the former town of Broadwater, Virginia, along with the Hog Island ...
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 ...
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.
Long Island is an unincorporated community in Campbell County, Virginia, United States. Long Island is located along the Roanoke River (also known as the Staunton River) east-southeast of Altavista. The town center of Long Island is on the other side of the river from the island that gave the community its name.