Chesapeake City, Virginia

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Chesapeake City, Virginia was an unincorporated town in Elizabeth City County, Virginia on the north side of Hampton Roads on the Virginia Peninsula from 1871 to 1900. In 1901, the town (despite the word "city" in its name) was incorporated and renamed Phoebus for its most prominent citizen, Harrison Phoebus. In 1952, it voted to became a portion of the independent city of Hampton, Virginia during a consolidation with Elizabeth City County.

[edit] Other communities using the name "Chesapeake"

63 years later, about 20 miles away, the name of "Chesapeake" was also selected by voters for the new independent city formed by a consolidation of Norfolk County and the City of South Norfolk in South Hampton Roads, and the independent city of Chesapeake, Virginia came into being on January 1, 1963.

There is also Chesapeake City, Maryland.

[edit] See also

• Lost counties, cities and towns of Virginia