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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]
In 1670, the Virginia Colony's Royal Governor William Berkeley abolished Accomac County, but the Virginia General Assembly re-created it in 1671. In 1940, the General Assembly officially added a "k" to the end of the county's name to arrive at its current spelling, which is Accomack. [3] [4]
Anyone with information on this or any other crime is asked to contact the Accomack County Sheriff’s Office at 757-787-1131 or 757-824-5666, or tips may be submitted online at ...
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.
Buildings and structures in Accomack County, Virginia (4 C, 18 P) E. Education in Accomack County, Virginia (1 C, 3 P) G. Geography of Accomack County, Virginia (3 C ...
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.
Alyssa Nicole Taylor, 25, was reported missing from Accomack County, Virginia, on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. Taylor’s family thinks she may have died in a tractor-trailer wreck on Interstate 85 in ...