Place:Cape Charles, Northampton, Virginia, United States

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Name
Cape Charles
Type
Town
Coordinates
37.268°N 76.014°W
Located in
Northampton, Virginia, United States

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Cape Charles is a town in Northampton County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,134 at the 2000 census.

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Cape Charles, located close to the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, was founded in 1884 as a planned community by railroad and ferry interests. Cape Charles was, for many years, the terminal for passenger and car ferry service across the Bay to Norfolk and Hampton. The last ferry left Cape Charles in 1953. Cape Charles still serves as a terminal for railway barges that carry rail cars from the former Eastern Shore Railroad which is now Bay Coast Railroad across the mouth of the Bay to Norfolk.

The town hosted the Northampton Red Sox in the old Eastern Shore Baseball League.

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