Urbanna Creek

Urbanna Creek is a Virginia historical marker in Middlesex County, dedicated 1987.

Rte. 227, near intersection with Route 1070, at Urbanna.

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First known as Nimcock Creek, this creek was mentioned in a legislative act of 1680 as "Wormeley's Creek." After the town of Urbanna was named in 1705 for Queen Anne, the stream was given the same name. British privateersmen entered the creek, June 5, 1781, and pillaged Urbanna and Rosegill, the plantation of Sir Ralph Wormeley.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1630 · Nova Virginia Tabula. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1670 · Virginia and Maryland As it is planted and Inhabited this present Year 1670 ... (John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)
1671 · Noua Terrae-Mariae tabula. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1708 · Carte Particuliere de Virginie, Maryland, Pennsilvanie. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1787 · [French troops route to Yorktown] (Historical map archives, georeferenced via Allmaps)

Noua Terrae-Mariae tabula, 1671, covering the location of Urbanna Creek, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Noua Terrae-Mariae tabula, 1671, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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