History and Heritage in Virginia Beach, VA

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The old masonry light at Cape Henry was a long time in coming. For seventy years the Colonial Assembly o...

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Reopened in May 2011 after extensive restoration, the Adam Thoroughgood House has long been the subject of stud...

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Francis Moseley Land built this large brick plantation home circa 1805 on property his family had owned for 150 y...

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Among First landing's current distinctions: it's the most visited park in Virginia's system with more than 1.2 mill...

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The Cape Henry Memorial Cross, located on the tip of Cape Henry, marks the approximate site where Jamestown settl...

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Seashore State Park at Cape Henry, now known as First Landing State Park, was built by an all African American regime...

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Here at Cape Henry first landed in America, upon 26 April 1607, those English colonists who, upon 13 May 1607, establ...

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The Pembroke Manor House has been place on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department o...

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The Cape Henry Lighthouse & Cross in the seal's center symbolize the beginning of Virginia Beach as well as the Unite...

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The witchcraft case of Grace Sherwood is one of the best known in Virginia. She was accused of bewitching a neighbor?...

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Costumed docents lead visitors on a tour through this house built in 1725, formerly part of a 250-acre tobacco farm but...

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Church Point Manor is so many things all at once: historic, beautifully restored, European in flavor and v...

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History of Thalia. The word Thalia is derived from the Greek thallein , meaning to flourish and bloom. The community ...

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On the morning of September 5, 1781, a line of 19 British warships appeared off this cape, headed for Chesapeake Bay....

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Princess Anne County Training School was the first and only school for African American children in Princess Anne...

Old Cape Henry Lighthouse