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Chesapeake Indians (2)
N Great Neck Rd, Virginia Beach,
VA ,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
36° 53' 56.184",
-76° 3' 47.9412"
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Virginia State
Historical Marker
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In 1585, two towns of the Chesapeake Indians called Apasus and Chesepiooc were visited by the English Roanoke expedition and later included in Theodor De Bry's map of Virginia. Archaeological research conducted in the Great Neck neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s yielded evidence of continual habitation for at least one thousand years before 1600 A.D. Several house sites were found, along with part of a palisade, pottery, trash pits, shell beads, and stone tools. The remains of 64 Chesapeake Indians from the Great Neck site were reburied by members of the Nansemond Indian tribe at nearby First Landing State Park in 1997.
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Chesapeake Indians (2) Historical Marker Location Map, Virginia Beach, Virginia Map
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