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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VAJ_northampton-county-veterans-memorial-a-war-memorial_Cape-Charles-VA.html
In Memory Of and Honor To the Brave Brave Men of Northampton County Who Lost Their Lives in Battle for Our Great Republic's Cause World War I Bell, Clarence Benjamin, Simon Cugler, Byron Davis, Alfred W. Edmonds, Thomas S. Etz, Freder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V7A_arlington-historical_Cape-Charles-VA.html
Two miles west stood Arlington, original home of the Custis Family, built by John Custis. The family tombs are still preserved there. Governor Wm. Berkeley made his headquarters there during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676. Arlington on the Potomac was …
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In 1676, John Custis II was recognized as a wealthy and powerful man, not only on the Eastern Shore, but also in Jamestown. When Nathaniel Bacon assembled a militia to overthrow the royal government at Jamestown, Governor William Berkeley fled to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V4G_slavery-on-the-eastern-shore-historical_Cape-Charles-VA.html
During the early decades of the l7th century, natives of Angola were brought to the Caribbean islands to work on the tobacco and sugar plantations. From there they were brought to Virginia. In 1619 a Dutch man-o-war ship brought the first Negroes …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V4D_indians-historical_Cape-Charles-VA.html
When the English first visited the Eastern Shore in 1608, they found an area which had been inhabited for centuries by Algonquian Indian Tribes. Today archaeologists have found on or near the Arlington Plantation, shards of ceramics known as Roano…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V4C_mansion-site-historical_Cape-Charles-VA.html
Exploratory digs here in 1988 and 1994 uncovered a three brick wide foundation of an extraordinary 17th century home. Measuring 54 feet by 43.5 feet, this huge footing supported a structure described in 1709 as a "...Dwelling House built of brick …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V42_maritime-highway-historical_Cape-Charles-VA.html
Shipping traffic, commercial fisheries, recreation and tourism industries and the military rely on the Chesapeake Bay for its logistic potential. Native American canoes, colonial sailing ships, 20th century schooners, and modern cargo ships have n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V40_farm-to-market-historical_Cape-Charles-VA.html
The Eastern Shore has a rich agricultural history—from large British land grant farms to post-civil war tenant farmers and from large commercial outfits to small organic farms. Agriculture continues to be the largest economic activity on the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V3Z_chesapeake-bay-historical_Cape-Charles-VA.html
The Chesapeake Bay, vital to the survival of many species of shorebirds and birds of prey, provides fish, mollusks, and crabs as well as a variety of nesting habitats along the Eastern Shore. Many of these birds can be seen gliding along the hulls…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V3Y_the-dunes-historical_Cape-Charles-VA.html
An ever-changing dynamic ecosystem, established dune ridges make up the backbone of the Eastern Shore. Over time, tides and wind cause sand to accumulate creating sand dunes. Intense storms and human impacts can cause erosion to the fragile dune s…
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