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Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Virginia is located in the independent city of Virginia Beach. Established in 1938 in an isolated portion of the former Princess Anne County, it is managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The administrative office is located on Sandbridge Road at Sigma between Lago Mar and Sandbridge Beach.
Port Republic Historic District is a national historic district located at Port Republic, Rockingham County, Virginia.The district encompasses 45 contributing buildings and 62 contributing sites in the village of Port Republic.
Ferry Plantation House, or Old Donation Farm, Ferry Farm, Walke Manor House, [3] [5] is a brick house in the neighborhood of Old Donation Farm in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The site dates back to 1642 when Savill Gaskin started the second ferry service in Hampton Roads to carry passengers on the Lynnhaven River to the nearby county courthouse ...
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.
Gwyn claimed to discover Gwynn's Island in c. 1611. [6] According to legend, Gwynn saved Pocahontas from a sinking canoe near the island. [7] At a January 1624 muster, Hugh Wing was listed as aged 30 years. [2] In 1635, Gwyn petitioned King Charles I for ownership of the island and in 1640 was given 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2). [8]
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.
Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was constructed in 1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, upon the burning of his family's older house.