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Mathews is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Mathews County, Virginia, United States. [2] Established around 1700, the small town of Westville was designated as the county seat in 1791. Today, it is variously known as Mathews Court House, as well as simply "Mathews," its official postal name.
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.
The town includes the whole of Chincoteague Island and an area of adjacent water. The population was 3,344 at the 2020 census. [5] The town is a tourist gateway to the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on adjacent Assateague Island, [6] the location of a popular recreational beach and home of the Virginia herd of Chincoteague Ponies.
Gwynn's Island is an island in the Chesapeake Bay and the U.S. state of Virginia, lying off of the Middle Peninsula. A summer colony, the island is located in the northeast part of Mathews County, south of the mouth of the Piankatank River. It is connected to the rest of the county by a swing bridge over Milford Haven.
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.
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.
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.
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.