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We would like to provide the residents of  Colonial Beach  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Colonial Beach Home page. The Colonial Beach Home page provides as much information as possible on Colonial Beach. Knowing Colonial Beach’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Colonial Beach’s Home page, you will also find Colonial Beach’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Colonial Beach has a population of 3591. 43.8% of Colonial Beach’s inhabitants are Male, and 56.2 are female. 40% of Colonial Beach is married and 67.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $211,559, and the average rent is $1,048. Household median income in Colonial Beach is $54,324, and the individual median income is $30,625. Colonial Beach’s Ethnic is the following: White(79.3%), Black(9.5%), Multiple(6.8%), Hispanic(4.9%), Asian(2.2%), Native(1.2%), Other(1%).


Colonial Beach, Virginia (CBVA) is a river and beach town located in the northwestern part of Westmoreland County on Virginia's Northern Neck peninsula. It is bounded by the Potomac River, Monroe Bay and Monroe Creek. It is located 65 mi (105 km) from Washington, D.C.; 70 mi (110 km) from the state capital of Richmond; and 35 nautical miles from the Chesapeake Bay. Colonial Beach was named Best Virginia Beach for 2018 by USA Today.


In 2019, Colonial Beach was named The Nicest Place in Virginia and a finalist for Nicest Places in America by Reader's Digest.Colonial Beach was a popular resort town in the early to mid-20th century, before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge made ocean beaches on the Eastern Shore of Maryland more accessible to visitors from Washington, D.C.


The family of Alexander Graham Bell maintained a summer home in Colonial Beach, the Bell House, which still stands today. Sloan Wilson, author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, retired and died in Colonial Beach. George Washington, the first President of the United States, was born near here at what is now the George Washington Birthplace National Monument.


As of 2011, the James Monroe Family Home Site, birthplace of President James Monroe, now has a small monument to him.


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