Urbanna Creek
This creek, mentioned in an act of 1680 as "Wormeley's Creek", was earlier known as "Nimcock Creek". After Urbanna was named in 1705 for Queen Anne, the stream took the same name. British privateersmen entered the creek, June 5, 1781, and pillaged Urbanna and Rosegill.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
Many of these markers have since been replaced or their texts revised. The marker program and its current texts are maintained by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Virginia Department of Historic Resources ↗
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Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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