Cheap Things To Do in New Kent, Virginia

On rainy afternoons, mist enshrouds the fern-blanketed hills at Wahrani Nature Park, evoking the Smoky Mountains rather than Tidewater Virginia. Though modest by Appalachian standards, the distinct... More on Trails

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New Kent County Historical Society in New Kent, VA is one of more than 15,400 museums in the MuseumsUSA directory. Find ... More on MuseumsUSA.org

The major focus of the Pamunkey Indian Museum is to teach about the Pamunkey people and their way of life throughout history, from the ice age to the present. Tools and other items are shown as they would have been seen and used by ... More on MuseumsUSA.org

Inscription. About two miles northeast stood Chestnut Grove, the plantation home of John and Frances Jones Dandridge, where Martha Dandridge, the eldest of eight children, was born on 2 June 1731. She lived there until 15 May 1750, ... More on HMDB

Inscription. (west face), Born at White House, New Kent County in 1755. Died at Eltham, New Kent County, November 1781, where his body remains. This marker placed by the Sons of the Revolution in Virginia 1960, (south face), While ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Two miles northeast is St. Peter's Church, built in 1703 in English bond. David Mossom, rector there for forty years, was the minister who married George Washington. According to one tradition, the wedding took place ... More on HMDB

Inscription. This place, six miles northeast, was the home of Martha Custis. According to tradition, George Washington first met her at Poplar Grove, near by, in 1758. On January 6, 1759, Washington and Martha Custis were married, ... More on HMDB

In 1695, the New Kent County Courthouse was moved to its present location. Following several fires, the existing âold courthouseâ was erected in ... More on Discover America

Inscription. Lord Cornwallis's army was here, moving eastward, June 22, 1781; Lafayette, in pursuit, June 25; Washington, Rochambeau and Chastellux, on their way to Yorktown, September 14, 1781. A ... More on HMDB

After getting consent of his master, William Armistead, he volunteered in 1781 to join the army under General Lafayette. He was stationed as a spy. First he became a spy at the American traitor, Be... More on Jameslafayette.com

Inscription. James Lafayette was born in slavery about 1748 near here. His master William Armistead was commissary of military supplies when in the summer of 1781 the Marquis de Lafayette recruited... More on HMDB

Inscription. Edmund Hockaday built the earliest part of this house about 1810. The house was nearly doubled in size in 1830s, with further additions by 1901 and finally in the 1950s. The house did not remain in one family. It was ... More on HMDB