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  2. Eastern Shore of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Shore of Virginia is the easternmost region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It consists of two counties ( Accomack and Northampton) on the Atlantic coast. It is detached from the mainland of Virginia by the Chesapeake Bay. The 70-mile-long (110 km) region is part of the Delmarva Peninsula.

  3. Delmarva Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    The Delmarva Peninsula, or simply Delmarva, is a large peninsula on the East Coast of the United States, occupied by the vast majority of the state of Delaware and parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Eastern Shore of Virginia. The peninsula is 170 miles (274 km) long. In width, it ranges from 70 miles (113 km) near its center, to 12 ...

  4. Coast Guard Station Cobb Island - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 37.290103°N 75.922164°W. Cobb Island Station. Coast Guard Station Cobb Island ( a.k.a. Cobb Island Station) is a former United States Coast Guard Station that was built on the southern end of Cobb Island, Virginia, one of Virginia's Barrier Islands, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, in 1936, to replace an earlier c. 1877 Coast Guard ...

  5. New Ravenna Mosaics Revitalizes Virginia's Eastern Shore - AOL

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    Exmore, Va. used to be a ghost town-or close to it. Set on Virginia's Eastern Shore, a landscape of farming land that stretches for acres surrounded by the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean ...

  6. Wallops Flight Facility - Wikipedia

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    Wallops Flight Facility ( WFF) ( IATA: WAL, ICAO: KWAL, FAA LID: WAL) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately 100 miles (160 km) north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland ...

  7. List of museums in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Tangier History Museum & Interpretive Cultural Center: Tangier Island: Accomack: Eastern Shore: Local history: website: Taubman Museum of Art: Roanoke: Roanoke: Shenandoah Valley: Art: Formerly the Art Museum of Western Virginia, focus is American art, particularly Western Virginia and the Appalachian region This Century Art Gallery ...

  8. Exmore, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Virginia Barrier Island Center (BIC) offers exhaustive information on the local culture and history. Founded in 1996 and opened to visitors in 2002 on the former site of the Almshouse Farm in Machipongo 10 miles south of the town of Exmore and 20 miles north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel , the BIC is a cultural center, a museum and a ...

  9. Battle of Cockle Creek - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana ′s boats, led by Lieutenant Alfred Hopkins, surprised and burned three Confederate vessels at Chincoteague Inlet on October 28 and 29. On December 8, 4,000 Federal troops secured the remainder of the Eastern Shore of Virginia for the Union. Although a minor skirmish, the Battle of Cockle Creek eliminated the Confederate threat to ...

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