The main village of the Chesepians was called Skicoak, located in the present independent city of Norfolk. To their west were the members of the Nansemond tribe.

They were divided into five provinces or kingdoms: Weapemiooc, Chawanook, Secotan, Pomouic and Newsiooc, each ruled by a king or chief. They occupied an area which is now the Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach areas.

Selecting the better-known name of the oceanfront strip area, Virginia Beach has since grown to become the most populated city in Hampton Roads, which are each linked by the Hampton Roads Beltway which crosses the harbor of Hampton Roads through two large bridge-tunnels.Ĭhesepians were the Native American (American Indian) inhabitants of the area now known as South Hampton Roads in Virginia during the Woodland Period and later prior to the arrival of the English settlers in 1607. In 1952, when 2-square-mile (5.2 km 2) resort Town of Virginia Beach became an independent city, followed by the rest of Princess Anne County which whom it was reunited and politically consolidated by mutual approval of residents to form a new independent city in 1963. Since 1634, area known today as Virginia Beach has been part of the same unit of local government, except for 11 years. The Colonial Virginia period extended until 1776 and the American Revolution, and the area has been part of the Commonwealth of Virginia ever since. The history of Virginia Beach, Virginia, goes back to the Native Americans who lived in the area for thousands of years before the English colonists landed at Cape Henry in April 1607 and established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown a few weeks later.

The Old Cape Henry Light, completed in 1792, was the first federal construction project under the United States Constitution

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