Pitch and Tar Swamp

Pitch and Tar Swamp is in , . Pitch and Tar Swamp is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near the neighborhood .
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Wetland
  • Description: swamp in James City County, Virginia, United States of America
  • Address: VA

Places of Interest

Highlights include Historic Jamestown and Jamestown Tercentennial Monument.

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Historic Jamestowne is the cultural heritage site that was the location of the 1607 James Fort and the later 17th-century town of Jamestown in America.

Work of art
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The is an obelisk-shaped monument erected in in Jamestown, , commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Jamestown Colony. The monument was installed in 1907.

Building
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, constructed in brick from 1639 onward, in Jamestown in the Mid-Atlantic state of , is one of the oldest surviving building remnants built by Europeans in the original Thirteen Colonies and in the United States overall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jamestown and Scotland.

Locality
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The settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was located, in what later became James City County, on the northeast bank of the , about 2.5 mi southwest of present-day .

Village
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also known as Wharf is a census-designated place in , , United States. As of the 2020 census, had a population of 153.

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is a city in southeast . Settled in 1632, it was the capital of Virginia from 1699 to 1779 and in 1926, John D. Rockefeller Jr commissioned a restoration project to bring back to its former colonial glory.

Pitch and Tar Swamp

Latitude
37.20709° or 37° 12′ 26″ north
Longitude
-76.76635° or 76° 45′ 59″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
8795664M+RF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 368943756
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­wetland
Geo­Names ID
4779315
Wiki­data ID
Q49216637
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In Other Languages

“Pitch and Tar Swamp” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Pitch and Tar Swamp”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include May-Hartwell House and Sherwood House.

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