City of Colonial Heights, Virginia
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About City of Colonial Heights
Colonial Heights is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,170. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the City of Colonial Heights with Dinwiddie County for statistical purposes.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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City of Colonial Heights at a glance
- Population
- 18,170 (2020)
- Land area
- 8 sq mi
History
History of City of Colonial Heights
Like much of eastern Virginia at contact, the site of Colonial Heights was governed by the Powhatan Confederacy, ruled by Chief Powhatan, when the English colonists arrived at Jamestown on May 14, 1607. Captain John Smith's early map of Virginia testifies that the present area of Colonial Heights included the principal town of the Appamattuck tribe, led by their Weroance, Coquonasum, and his sister, Oppussoquionuske. In the aftermath of the confederacy's attacks in 1622 and 1644, the Appamattuck became tributary to England and relocated to nearby Ettrick, and its opposite bank, near Fort Henry (within modern-day Petersburg, Virginia). The area including present-day Colonial Heights was made a part of "Henrico Cittie", one of 4 huge "incorporations" formed in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the London Company. English colonists first settled in the Colonial Heights area in 1620.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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