Kecoughtan
In the seventeenth century, Kecoughtan was the name of the settlement now known as Hampton, Virginia. In the early twentieth century, it was also the name of a town nearby in Elizabeth City County. It was annexed into the City of Newport News in 1927.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: human settlement in Virginia, United States of America
- Also known as: “Kecoughtan, Virginia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Herbert House and Victoria Boulevard Historic District.
Herbert House
Historic house
Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Herbert House is a historic plantation home located at Hampton, Virginia. It was built in 1753 on the point of land where the Hampton River meets Sunset Creek near Hampton Roads, and is a two-story, U-shaped, brick and frame Georgian style dwelling.
Victoria Boulevard Historic District
Park
Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Historic Little England is a national historic district located at Hampton, Virginia. The district encompasses 87 contributing buildings in a streetcar suburb originally laid out in 1888.
Virginia Air and Space Science Center
Museum
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
The Virginia Air and Space Science Center is a museum and educational facility in Hampton, Virginia that also serves as the visitors center for NASA's Langley Research Center and Langley Air Force Base.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Phoebus and Wythe.
Phoebus
Suburb
Photo: Kubigula, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Phoebus is a formerly incorporated town now part of the present-day city of Hampton, Virginia, on the Virginia Peninsula. In 1900, it was named in honor of local businessman Harrison Phoebus, who is credited with convincing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to extend its tracks to the town from Newport News.
Wythe
Suburb
Wythe is a neighborhood in Hampton, Virginia, along the water's edge of Hampton Roads, at the end of Virginia's Lower Peninsula. It is named after one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, George Wythe. Wythe is situated 2 miles southwest of Kecoughtan.
Fort Monroe
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fort Monroe is a former military installation in Hampton, Virginia, at Old Point Comfort, the southern tip of the Virginia Peninsula, United States. It is currently managed by partnership between the Fort Monroe Authority for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the National Park Service, and the city of Hampton as the Fort Monroe National Monument. Fort Monroe is situated 2 miles east of Kecoughtan.
Kecoughtan
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Hampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.01431° or 37° 0′ 52″ northLongitude
-76.34633° or 76° 20′ 47″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87952M73+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 157593836OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Croatian to Irish—“Kecoughtan” goes by many names.
- Croatian: “Kecoughtan”
- Dutch: “Kecoughtan”
- German: “Kecoughtan”
- Irish: “Kecoughtan”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kecoughtan”. Photo: Patrick Nouhailler’s…, CC BY-SA 3.0.