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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.
The Debtors' Prison is a historic debtors' prison in Accomac, Virginia. Constructed in 1783 as a house for the Accomack County jailer, it is the oldest public structure in the county. [3] It was converted to use as a debtors' prison in 1824, which purpose it served until 1849. [4]
William Custis remarried, to Joan Hall in Northampton County. She died before 1692 in what had become Accomack County (likewise in Virginia's Eastern Shore), after giving with to three sons (none of whom survived to adulthood) and a daughter, Joanna Mary Custis. William Custis remarried, and was survived by his widow, Bridget Custis, whose ...
Notable structures from this time period include Bayly Memorial Hall (a former Baptist Church built in 1870 and later moved), the County Clerk's Office (1887), the Accomack County Courthouse (1899), and houses found in the Lilliston Avenue extension of the town built in the 1880s-1890s.
The referendum vote took place in 1895 after nearly a decade of debate, and the residents of Accomack County elected to keep the court where it had been located for the past two centuries. [12] By this time, the town had been renamed "Accomac" by order of the United States Post Office Department dated August 9, 1893. [13]
A four-vehicle crash on Route 13 in Accomack County left one person dead and two injured, Virginia State Police said.
Onancock (/ oʊ ˈ n æ n k ɒ k / oh-NAN-kok) is a town in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,263 at the 2010 census. [5] History.
All counties, with the exception of Arlington County, are further subdivided into magisterial districts. [1] Magisterial districts are defined by the United States Census Bureau as a minor civil division that is a nonfunctioning subdivision used in conducting elections or recording land ownership, and are not governments. [ 1 ]