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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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    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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    The Pungoteague Creek Light was a small screwpile lighthouse constructed in the Chesapeake Bay in 1854. Destroyed in 1856, it had the shortest recorded...
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    land was located on the Great Naswattock Creek, which flowed into the Pungoteague River in Northampton County, Virginia. Johnson ran a tobacco farm using...
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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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    Episcopal Church on VA 178, northeast of the junction with VA 180 in Pungoteague, Accomack County, Virginia. Established in the seventeenth century, the...
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    to the Chesapeake Bay region. The name is believed to derive from the Pungoteague region of Accomack County, Virginia, where the design was developed in...
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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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    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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    Shepherd's Plain, also known as Melrose, is a historic home located near Pungoteague, Accomack County, Virginia. It was built between 1755 and 1775, and is...
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    Northampton County on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. He acquired property on Pungoteague Creek and began raising livestock. He was the first known African landowner...
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  • Elementary School Kegotank Elementary School Metompkin Elementary School Pungoteague Elementary School Middle schools Arcadia Middle School Nandua Middle...
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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...
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  • Church, 1786 Seacock Baptist Church, 1787 Portsmouth Baptist Church, 1789 Pungoteague Baptist Church, 1790 Machipongo Baptist Church Boars Swamp Baptist Church...
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    family-owned business in North America St. George's Church (Pungoteague, Virginia) Pungoteague, Virginia 1738 Oldest church on Virginia's eastern shore Old...
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    Light Old Point Comfort Light Pages Rock Light Point of Shoals Light Pungoteague Creek Light Smith Point Light Stingray Point Light Tangier Sound Light...
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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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    Shore of Virginia in the colonial period. Susie May Ames was born in Pungoteague, Accomack County, Virginia, on January 10, 1888. She was the second child...
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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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  • Catholic Church (Bakersfield, Vermont), NRHP-listed St. George's Church (Pungoteague, Virginia), Accomack County, Virginia St. George's Episcopal Church (Fredericksburg...
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    Light Old Point Comfort Light Pages Rock Light Point of Shoals Light Pungoteague Creek Light Smith Point Light Stingray Point Light Tangier Sound Light...
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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...
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  • — 01933-01-011933 01959-01-011959 SR 178 11.51 18.52 Exmore north of Pungoteague 01933-01-011933 current SR 179 2.94 4.73 Onancock Onley 01933-01-011933...
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    Light Old Point Comfort Light Pages Rock Light Point of Shoals Light Pungoteague Creek Light Smith Point Light Stingray Point Light Tangier Sound Light...
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  • the first play in English in the American colonies, is performed in Pungoteague, Virginia. September 22 – Molière's comedy L'Amour médecin ("Love, the...
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    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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    Keller SR 180 west (North Street) / SR 696 east (Keller Fair Road) – Pungoteague South end of SR 180 overlap SR 180 east (Wachapreague Road) – Wachapreague...
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    returned to the area, but the ferry now had competition, a ferry to Pungoteague, i.e. the part that split off into Accomack Parish. Around the time Hungars...
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    was embodied on 18 May 1814 and made its combat debut in the raid on Pungoteague Creek on 30 May 1814 where, in a skirmish known as the Battle of Rumley's...
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  • George (Prince George County) Princess Anne (City of Virginia Beach) Pungoteague (Accomack County) Quantico Base (Prince William County and Stafford County)...
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