Historic Hampton
The Indian village of Kecoughtan stood here in 1607. An English village was built on its site in 1610. In 1630 William Claiborne set up a trading post here. The town of Hampton was established by law in 1680 and named for the Earl of Southampton. The first Revolutionary engagement in Virginia took place here, October 25, 1775. British sacked the town in June, 1813. Confederates burned it in August, 1861, to prevent its use by Union troops.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.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 ↗
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public LibraryJohn Carter Brown Library, Brown UniversityDigital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library
Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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