The following year, New Norfolk County was split into Upper Norfolk County (soon renamed Nansemond County) and Lower Norfolk County. Thoroughgood is credited with using the name of his home in England when helping name " New Norfolk County" in 1637. In 1634, the Colony was divided into the original eight shires of Virginia, soon renamed as counties. In 1629, he was elected to the House of Burgesses for Elizabeth Cittie, one of four "cities" (or incorporations) which were subdivided areas established in 1619. He earned his freedom after several years and became a leading citizen of the area. At the age of 18, he had contracted as an indentured servant to pay for passage to the Virginia Colony in the hopes of bettering his life. Īdam Thoroughgood (1604–1640) of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England is one of the earliest Englishmen to settle in this area, which was developed as Virginia Beach. They created their first permanent settlement on the north side of the James River at Jamestown. These English colonists of the Virginia Company of London moved on from this area, as they were under orders to seek a site further inland, which would be more sheltered from ships of competing European countries. They named it Cape Henry, after Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of King James I of England. In 1607, after a voyage of 144 days, three ships headed by Captain Christopher Newport, and carrying 105 men and boys, made their first landfall in the New World on the mainland, where the southern mouth of the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. Princess Anne County (1691–1963), now defunct, with Virginia Beach from 1895 Virginia map The Chesepian occupied an area which is now defined as the independent cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, and Virginia Beach. These were common among the numerous tribes of the coastal area, who made up the loose Powhatan Confederacy, numbering in the tens of thousands in population. They would have spoken one of the Algonquian languages. Little is known about them but archeological evidence suggests they may have been related to the Carolina Algonquian, or Pamlico people. The Chesepian were the historic indigenous people of the area now known as Tidewater in Virginia at the time of European encounter. Main articles: History of Virginia Beach, Virginia Timeline of Virginia Beach, Virginia and Princess Anne County, Virginia A Chesepian home It is located at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, which was the world's longest bridge-tunnel complex until the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge opened in 2018. The city is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest pleasure beach in the world. Near the point where the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet, Cape Henry was the site of the first landing of the English colonists, who eventually settled in Jamestown, on April 26, 1607. It is also home to several state parks, several long-protected beach areas, military bases, a number of large corporations, Virginia Wesleyan University and Regent University, the international headquarters and site of the television broadcast studios for Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment, and numerous historic sites. Every year the city hosts the East Coast Surfing Championships as well as the Something in the Water music festival. Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. This area, sometimes referred to as "America's First Region", also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk, as well as other smaller cities, counties, and towns of Hampton Roads.
Located on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach is the largest city in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area which includes 6 other cities. Although mostly suburban in character, it is the most populous city in Virginia, fifth-most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, ninth-most populous city in the Southeast and the 42nd-most populous city in the U.S. The population was 459,470 at the 2020 census. Virginia Beach is an independent city located on the southeastern coast of Virginia, United States.
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