#accomack

[tidewatergone]

Mount Wharton, near Accomack, Virginia. HABS photo, Library of Congress ( HABS VA,1-____,3--1)

Survey notes: “Main house approx. 25 x 50 feet and has cellar. South end gable…of brick. This end in ruins July 1940. Scalloped shingles on main hose and [south] wing.” 

Later additions on early houses are quite common, and Eastern Shore houses often have “telescoping” series of added rooms, making the houses much longer than they are deep. Mount Wharton shows a good example of that trend. The addition likely represents one or more  18th or 19th century add-ons to the core 18th century building.  Note the exposed frame and rafters in the ruined section of the building and also the small outbuilding behind.

No longer extant, near as I can tell.

[nativeskins]

In 1641, the Accomac Indians, an Algonquin-speaking tribe located on the Eastern shore and part of the group collectively referred to as Powhatan Indians, became known as the Gingaskins when they accepted a patent from the English government for the remaining 1,500 acres of their ancestral lands on the ocean side of Northampton County. Various legal and boundary struggles with their English neighbors over the years reduced the lands reserved for the Gingaskins to 650 acres, which was patented again in 1680.

Over the years, Indian lands were often leased to outsiders by the state and county governments in order to “help support” Gingaskin members, most of whom chose to maintain a traditional lifestyle and not farm the lands. Great concern was exhibited by white neighbors about the Gingaskins intermarrying with free negroes and charges were made in petitions to the General Assembly in 1784 and 1787 that there were no more “real” Indians left on the reservation and therefore the land should be given to whites who could “better protect it”, by which they meant farm it in the traditional English way.

Beginning in 1792, the General Assembly had required the Northampton County court to appoint trustees to manage the reservation lands and settle any disputes that arose. The trustees of the Gingaskin reservation, never very enthusiastic about their duties, “convinced” (or forced) the remaining members to accept a division of the land among themselves in 1812.  The General Assembly passed a law in 1813 to eliminate the Gingaskin reservation and divide the land between the official members, deeding the divided plots to individuals in the same way as anyone else in Virginia would own land. This was the first instance of termination or legal allotment of reservation lands and detribalization of its owners in United States history. Three-fourths of individual Gingaskin owners retained their lands until 1831 when most were forced out following the Nat Turner insurrection.

[nativeskins]

The Accohannock lived in Virginia,[1] including the counties of Accomack and Northampton in Virginia, in the United States.[2] They are believed to have been members of the Powhatan Confederacy. They spoke an Algonquian language. They ate wild game and vegetables like corn and squash. Grass-roots colonist racism and loss of the landbase eventually caused Indian people to adopt more up to date agriculture to survive—a process that occurred in the late 17th century for the Accomacs (by then called Gingaskins) and mainly in the 18th century for the Accohannocks (by then living in Maryland, with either the Pocomokes or the Nanticokes).

[loooongfurby4444]

At the beginning of this year Accomack County Public Schools put Trans students’ rights under attack. I know a lot of trans kids in that god awful school boards grasp, the 2023 policy about trans kids is bullshit. Trans kids should be able to make choices about their own gender without their parents permission.

[wjstiecounty]

ACCOMACK, VA (3)

county seat: accomac population: 33,413

i really like how the county was originally spelled "accomac" with no k, like the county seat, then in 1940 the county council just kinda added a k at the end for no reason at all wikipedia has a whole page for historic places in the county, idk how common that is bc this is only my third county but it's pretty interesting. it lists 29, with most of them being just old buildings or churches, but there's also a lighthouse so that's cool can't tell whether the county seat and county name being 1 letter off is very funny or very annoying but i'm gonna err on the side of very funny + lighthouses and other old buildings are cool

7/10

[tidewatergone]

Mount Wharton, near Accomack, Virginia. HABS photo, Library of Congress ( HABS VA,1-____,3--1)

From July, 1940, survey: “MOUNT WHARTON. Owner- Toby Lane, [of] Temperanceville, Va. Erected late 18th C. Present condition dilapidated…1 ½ st. frame sides; brick ends.”

No longer extant, near as I can tell.

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National Weather Service Issue Coastal Flood Warning For Northampton; Accomack

National Weather Service Issue Coastal Flood Warning For Northampton; Accomack

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a coastal flood warning for Northampton; Accomack starting on 9/13/2018 1:53:00 PM. NWS estimates this event is ‘likely’ to happen and the event is categorized as ‘severe.’ (more…)

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Coastal Flood Warning Issued By The National Weather Service For Accomack

Coastal Flood Warning Issued By The National Weather Service For Accomack

The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a coastal flood warning for Accomack starting on 9/10/2018 2:42:00 AM. NWS estimates this event is ‘likely’ to happen and the event is categorized as ‘severe.’ (more…)

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