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    Pungoteague is a census-designated place (CDP) in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in 2010. Per the 2020 census...
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    Church on VA 178, northeast of the junction with VA 180 in Pungoteague, Accomack County, Virginia. Established in the seventeenth century, the building, erected...
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    Pungoteague Creek is a creek in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. Pungoteague Creek Light and Pungoteague, Virginia are named after this creek...
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    buildings in the state of Virginia. List of the oldest buildings in the United States List of National Historic Landmarks in Virginia List of Registered Historic...
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    through Pungoteague and Keller, the latter location where the highway meets U.S. Route 13 (US 13). SR 180 begins at a boat ramp on Pungoteague Creek, which...
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    Mappsville Metompkin Modest Town Nelsonia New Church Oak Hall Pastoria Pungoteague Quinby Sanford Savage Town Savageville Schooner Bay Southside Chesconessex...
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    first performance. The presentation takes place at Cowles Tavern in Pungoteague, Virginia. The event is documented in 1958 in a historical marker with the...
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  • first performance. The presentation takes place at Cowles Tavern in Pungoteague, Virginia. The event is documented in 1958 in a historical marker with the...
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    connects Exmore in far northern Northampton County with Belle Haven and Pungoteague in southern Accomack County. SR 178 begins at an intersection with US...
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    Pennsylvania, a northeastern suburb of Philadelphia. In the U.S. state of Virginia, US 13 runs north–south through the Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore regions...
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  • Prince George (Prince George County) Princess Anne (City of Virginia Beach) Pungoteague (Accomack County) Quantico Base (Prince William County and Stafford...
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  • Primary State Highways in the U.S. state of Virginia, are numbered and maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation as a system of state highways...
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  • first play in English in the American colonies, is performed in Pungoteague, Virginia. September 22 – Molière's comedy L'Amour médecin ("Love, the doctor")...
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    the present-day Accomack County, the court convened alternatively at Pungoteague and Onancock until the 1690s when it shifted to the house of John Cole...
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    Anthony Johnson (colonist) (category People enslaved in Virginia)
    the Great Naswattock Creek, which flowed into the Pungoteague River in Northampton County, Virginia. Johnson ran a tobacco farm using indentured servants...
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    Shepherd's Plain (category Historic American Buildings Survey in Virginia)
    also known as Melrose, is a historic home located near Pungoteague, Accomack County, Virginia. It was built between 1755 and 1775, and is a two-story...
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  • St. George's Church (Pungoteague, Virginia), Accomack County, Virginia St. George's Episcopal Church (Fredericksburg, Virginia) Saint George St. George...
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    Cape Henry Lighthouses (category Buildings and structures in Virginia Beach, Virginia)
    landform marking the southern entrance to Chesapeake Bay in the U.S. state of Virginia. The location has long been important for the large amount of ocean-going...
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    Henry A. Wise (category Governors of Virginia)
    tutored until his twelfth year, when he entered Margaret Academy, near Pungoteague in Accomack County. He graduated from Washington College (now Washington...
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    Shoal Light was a lighthouse located in the James River near Newport News, Virginia. It outlasted all other lighthouses in the James, finally succumbing to...
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    This is a list of census-designated places in the U.S. state of Virginia Census-designated places (CDPs) are unincorporated communities lacking elected...
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    offshore from Accomack County, Virginia, and was located near the mouth of Pungoteague Creek, then called the Pungoteague River. It was the first screwpile...
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    Wolf Trap Light (category Buildings and structures in Mathews County, Virginia)
    Wolf Trap Light is a caisson lighthouse in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay, about seven and a half miles northeast of New Point Comfort Light...
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    Susie May Ames (category Educators from Virginia)
    research on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in the colonial period. Susie May Ames was born in Pungoteague, Accomack County, Virginia, on January 10, 1888. She...
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    Jones Point Light (category Buildings and structures in Alexandria, Virginia)
    is a small river lighthouse located on the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia. It was built in 1855. It is a small, one-story house with a lantern on...
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    Potomac Yard Potomac Mills Potomac River Potomac Creek Potomac Water Gap Pungoteague – from Algonquin word "Pungotekw", meaning "sand fly river". Quantico...
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  • A Virginia Byway is a scenic road designated by the Commonwealth of Virginia as one that can introduce tourists to alternative destinations. According...
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    congregation in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia. It is part of St. George's Parish in Pungoteague. The present rector is the Rev. Philip Bjornberg...
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    New Point Comfort Light (category National Register of Historic Places in Mathews County, Virginia)
    New Point Comfort Light is a lighthouse in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay, United States, off the tip of the Middle Peninsula. Finished in...
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    Thimble Shoal Light (category Buildings and structures in Hampton, Virginia)
    Thimble Shoal Light is a sparkplug lighthouse in the Virginia portion of Chesapeake Bay, north of the Hampton Roads channel. The third light at this location...
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