Historic Hampton

Historic Hampton is a Virginia historical marker in Hampton County, dedicated 1997.

Lincoln and Wine Streets, at Hampton City Hall

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The Native American village of Kecoughtan stood across the Hampton River in 1607. Soon after the English forcibly removed the inhabitants in 1610, the colonists settled there and the village grew. By the early eighteenth century, the royal customhouse, wharves, warehouses, and taverns were located in the bustling seaport town of Hampton. In an early Revolutionary War engagement, militiamen repulsed a British naval attack against Hampton on 24 Oct. 1775. During the Revolution, Hampton was the home port of the Virginia State Navy. On 25 June 1813, during the War of 1812, the British sacked the town. Confederates burned it in Aug. 1861 to prevent its use by Union troops and slaves.

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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)
1862 · Map of the battle ground near Richmond, showing plainly, every point of interest of the… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1944 · Hampton, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Nova Virginia Tabula, 1630, covering the location of Historic Hampton, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Nova Virginia Tabula, 1630, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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