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Gloucester County, Virginia

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About Gloucester County

Gloucester County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,711. Its county seat is Gloucester Courthouse. The county was founded in 1651 in the Virginia Colony and is named for Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester.

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Facts

Gloucester County at a glance

County seat
Gloucester Courthouse
Population
38,711 (2020)
Land area
288 sq mi
Founded
1651

Communities

Largest communities in Gloucester County

  1. Gloucester Pointpopulation 10,587
  2. Gloucester Courthouse County seatpopulation 3,030

History

History of Gloucester County

Gloucester County is included in the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News, VA–NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located at the east end of the lower part of the Middle Peninsula, it is bordered on the south by the York River and the lower Chesapeake Bay on the east. The waterways shaped its development. Gloucester County is about 60 miles (97 km) east of Virginia's capital, Richmond. Werowocomoco, capital of the large and powerful Powhatan Confederacy (a union of 30 indigenous tribes), was located on this part of the peninsula. In 2003, archeologists established that a dense town had been located at this site from AD 1200 to the early 17th century. The county was developed by colonists primarily for tobacco plantations, based on the labor of enslaved Africans imported in the slave trade. Tobacco was one of the first commodity crops but fishing also developed as an important industry.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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