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1964 Map of Cape Henry

Name: 1964 Topographic Map of Cape Henry
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1980
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1980

About this map

Fort Story Military Reservation and the sprawling Seashore State Park dominate the landscape at this strategic coastal point where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic. The survey illustrates a period of significant suburban expansion in the 1960s and 1970s, as residential developments like Great Neck Estates, Lynnhaven Colony, and Broad Bay Colony fill the wooded peninsulas of Great Neck and Little Neck.

Maritime history is deeply etched into the shoreline, from the historic Old Cape Henry LH and its 19th-century successor to the massive engineering of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel crossing Thimble Shoal Channel. The interior is defined by a complex network of brackish water bodies including Broad Bay and Linkhorn Bay, connected by The Narrows. These waterways, once the domain of local fishing, are increasingly surrounded by the schools and churches of a growing Virginia Beach, such as Cox High Sch and Church Point.