Isle of Wight County, Virginia
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About Isle of Wight County
Isle of Wight County is a county in the Hampton Roads region of the U.S. state of Virginia. It is named after the Isle of Wight, England, south of the Solent, from where many of its early colonists had come. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,606. Its county seat is Isle of Wight, an unincorporated community. Isle of Wight County is in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its northeastern boundary is on the coast of Hampton Roads waterway.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Isle of Wight County at a glance
- County seat
- Isle of Wight
- Population
- 38,606 (2020)
- Land area
- 363 sq mi
- Founded
- 1634
Communities
Largest communities in Isle of Wight County
- Smithfieldpopulation 8,533
- Carrolltonpopulation 7,498
- Windsorpopulation 2,746
- Benns Churchpopulation 1,453
- Rushmerepopulation 1,175
History
History of Isle of Wight County
In the 17th century, shortly after establishment of the settlement at Jamestown in 1607, English settlers explored and began settling the areas adjacent to the large Hampton Roads waterway. Captain John Smith crossed the James River in 1608 and obtained fourteen bushels of corn from the Native American inhabitants, the Warrosquyoack or Warraskoyak. They were a tribe of the Powhatan Confederacy, who had three villages in the area of modern Smithfield. Before 1619, Ensign Thomas Washer, Captain Nathaniel Basse and Giles Jones received patents for land along the Pagan River. Captain Christopher Lawne settled near the mouth of Lawne's Creek in the same vicinity.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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