Kempsville High School - Image Yearbook (Virginia Beach, VA)

 - Class of 1950

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There are now few records of schools in these early days, but James Nimmo taught school at New Town and the old church at Lynnhaven was permitted to be used as a school. Of all the private schools the Kempsville Academy was the most prominent, al- though there were others in the county. There were several other early towns in the county. One settlement was Pungo, which was named after an old Indian chief. Lynnhaven was settled by Adam Thorogood in the year 1621 and later became a market place for the settlers. In 1810 William Latham laid off a small town of 245 quarter and half-acre lots. This town was to be called North Land- ing or Cypressville and between the lots was left space for a canal which the Government was to dig. They began work on it just before The War between the States broke out. Settlers seemed to be few at Cypressville. Thus this settlement was a failure and today there are but a few residents and a very delapidated sawmill. Prior to The War between the States, a camp was erected where the Norfolk County water works now operate. This camp was called the Alabama Home Guards and companies from it were organized in various sections of the county. One of these frequently drilled in the Kempsville District. In the late World War the county supplied arms to another company of Home Guards which was formed in the Kempsville District. ' No account of the county would be complete without mentioning the magnificent ocean frontage stretching in an unbroken line. Fronting on the Atlantic Ocean 18 miles from Norfolk is the fashionable seaside, resort, Virginia Beach. North of Chesapeake Bay is Ocean Park and Chesapeake Beach, each with surf bathing and fishing. The history of Princess Anne County would not be satisfactory if we did not mention the Trial of Grace Sherwood in 1706. Grace was prosecuted for witchcraft. She was tried by a jury of eight women, and by her own consent, was tried in the water of john Harper's Plantation. Many people have the idea that Grace was drowned but this is not true. The sheriff was directed to take particular care that she did not drown. Evidence that proves this came in about 1733, when she made her will. Another interesting incident of the county was the arrest of Levin Sykes, Josiah Phil- lips and john Ashley, leaders of a band, who by fire and murder were terrorizing the local inhabitants of Princess Anne and Norfolk Counties. This was known as Phillip's Rebellion. One of the most prominent men of Princess Anne during this period was Adam Thorogood, who came from England in the year 1621. His home, which is of great his- torical interest today, is still in a remarkable state of preservation. Thorogood became a large landowner, a justice of the Court and a member of the Governor'siCouncil.



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