User:Gwillhickers/Northern Neck of colonial Virginia
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The Northern Neck of colonial Virginia, (also known as the Great Neck), consists of a peninsula approximately 150 miles long and that lies between the Potomac River to the north and by the Rappahannock River to the soputh, both of which feed into the Chesapeake Bay. The neck covers an area of approximately 5,000,000 acres. The first English settlers arrived there in the late 1500s but didn't begin to appear in any appreciable numbers until 1640.[1]