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North Shore is located in northeastern Franklin County at (37.091605, −79.651248 It occupies a 6-mile-long (10 km) peninsula in Smith Mountain Lake , an impoundment on the Roanoke River . The northeast edge of the CDP follows the Roanoke River arm of the lake, which is also the Bedford County line, while the southern and southwestern edge ...
Kiptopeke State Park is a state park located in the southern end of the Eastern Shore of Virginia and the Delmarva Peninsula in Northampton County, near Cape Charles.The park offers recreational access to the brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay with its shoreline, beach, boat ramps and piers, as well as unique migratory bird habitat along the East Coast flyway.
Construction started in 1723. Plantation dates to 1614. Oldest family-owned business in North America St. George's Church (Pungoteague, Virginia) Pungoteague, Virginia: 1738 Oldest church on Virginia's eastern shore Old Stone House (Richmond, Virginia) Richmond, Virginia: 1740 Home of Edgar Allan Poe Museum: Lansdowne: Urbanna, Virginia: c. 1740
Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) (IATA: WAL, ICAO: KWAL, FAA LID: WAL) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Norfolk.
Northampton County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,282. [1] Its county seat is Eastville. [2] Northampton and Accomack Counties are a part of the larger Eastern Shore of Virginia. The county is the center of the late Eocene meteor strike that resulted in the Chesapeake Bay impact ...
Merchant's Hope was the name of a plantation and church established in the Virginia Colony in the 17th century. It was also the name of an English sailing ship, Merchant's Hope , which plied the Atlantic bringing emigrants to Virginia in the early 17th-century.
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.
At the 2000 census there were 480 people, 220 households, and 139 families living in the town. The population density was 317.1 people per square mile (122.7/km 2).There were 248 housing units at an average density of 163.8 per square mile (63.4/km 2).