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Cape Charles, VA - History
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Welcome to the Cape Charles Home page. The Cape Charles Home page provides as much information as possible on Cape Charles. Knowing Cape Charles’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Cape Charles’s Home page, you will also find Cape Charles’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Cape Charles has a population of 1245. 45.2% of Cape Charles’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.8 are female. 44.7% of Cape Charles is married and 52.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $374,868, and the average rent is $630. Household median income in Cape Charles is $55,104, and the individual median income is $37,574. Cape Charles’s Ethnic is the following: White(77.6%), Black(16%), Hispanic(7.1%), Multiple(4.3%), Asian(1.6%), Other(0.3%), Native(0.2%).
Cape Charles, located close to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, was founded in 1884 as a planned community by railroad and ferry interests. In 1883, William Lawrence Scott became president of the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company (NYP&N), and purchased three plantations comprising approximately 2,509 acres from the heirs of former Virginia Governor Littleton Waller Tazewell.
Of this land, 40 acres were ceded to the NYP&N, and 136 acres went to create the Town of Cape Charles (technically known as the "Municipal Corporation of Cape Charles"). Some of this land, named Cape Charles for the geographical cape found on the Point and headland to the south, Scott sold to the Railroad Company to serve as the southern terminus of the line on the Delmarva Peninsula from the Northeast states.
In that same year, construction of the railroad began. In Cape Charles, the Railroad Company built a harbor port to handle steamships and freighters from Cape Charles to Norfolk. The original Town was surveyed, platted, and laid out with approximately 136 acres divided into 644 equal lots. Seven wider avenues which run from east to west were named for Virginia statesmen and political leaders; the streets which run north and south were named for fruits.
The original layout of the Town is still very visible today.Historian William G. Thomas writes, "At a cost of nearly $300,000, the New York, Pennsylvania, and Norfolk Railroad (N.Y.P. & N. R.R.) was dredging a new harbor out of a large fresh-water lagoon between King's and Old Plantation creeks in lower Northampton County, and Scott planned to develop a new town around it called Cape Charles City.
The appellation "City" for any place on the Eastern Shore was romantic, a vision of the future that the railroad might make possible....In 1890, the United States Army Corps of Engineers dredged the harbor basin, its entrance, and a channel through Cherrystone Inlet and built stone jetties protecting the harbor outlet.
By 1912 the Engineer Corps estimated that Cape Charles harbor handled 2,500,000 tons of freight a year." Cape Charles was, for many years, the terminal for the Little Creek-Cape Charles Ferry, providing passenger and car ferry service across the mouth of the Bay to Norfolk Portsmouth, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake on the SouthSide / Tidewater and across Hampton Roads harbor to Hampton - Newport News on the northern Virginia Peninsula.
The last ferry left Cape Charles in 1963. Cape Charles served as a terminal for railway freight barges that carried rail cars from the former Eastern Shore Railroad which later became Bay Coast Railroad across the mouth of the Bay to Norfolk. The Bay Coast Railroad ceased operations in 2018. There is also a cement factory nearby. The town hosted the Northampton Red Sox in the old Eastern Shore Baseball League. The Cape Charles Historic District and Stratton Manor are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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