New Kent County

the White House on the Pamunkey River, home of Daniel Parke Custis and his wife Martha (who later married George Washington) was burned by Federal forces in 1862 during the Peninsula Campaign
Source: The Photographic History of the Civil War, Headquarters of General McClellan (p.274)

Existing Virginia Counties

Opening - and Closing - Colonial Downs

Re-Opening Colonial Downs in 2019

Links

• New Kent County Homepage
• Census Bureau
• QuickFacta: New Kent County
• Department of the Interior - Secretary Norton Designates 15 Sites in 11 States as National Historic Landmarks (August 27, 2001 news release)
  • New Kent School and George W. Watkins School: "These two schools are associated with the most significant public school desegregation case the U.S. Supreme Court decided after Brown v. Board of Education. The 1968 Green v. New Kent County decision defined the standards by which the Court judged whether a violation of the U.S Constitution had been remedied in school desegregation cases. Henceforth, a decade of massive resistance to school desegregation in the South from 1955-1964, would be replaced by an era of massive integration from 1968-1973, as the Court placed an affirmative duty on school boards to integrate schools."
• New Kent Economic Development Authority
• Parks/Forests/Lakes/Refuges/Preserves
• Crawfords State Forest
• Cumberland Marsh
• Diascund Reservoir
• Chickahominy Reservoir
• Game Farm Marsh Wildlife Management Area
• Planning District Commission: Richmond Regional Planning District Commission
• Soil and Water Conservation District: Colonial Soil and Water Conservation District
• VAGenWeb - New Kent County (genealogy/history)
• Virginia Department of Forestry - New Kent County
• Virginia Economic Development - New Kent County
• Virginia Employment Commission - New Kent County
• Virginia Tourism Corporation - Tidewater / Hampton Roads
• William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine
• The Port Towns of the Pamunkey (1943)

tradition holds that George Washington and Martha Dandridge Custis were married in St. Peters Church in New Kent County (seen here during the Civil War)
Source: The Photographic History of the Civil War, Sumner in the Field - a General Full of Years and Honors (p.296)