Place:Colonial Beach, Westmoreland, Virginia, United States

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Name
Colonial Beach
Alternate names
Town of Colonial Beach     (Colonial Beach (1999) accessed 01/20/99)
Type
Town
Coordinates
38.254°N 76.969°W
Located in
Westmoreland, Virginia, United States     (1200 - )

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Colonial Beach is a town in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States. The population was 3,228 at the 2000 census. Possessing the second largest beach front in the state, Colonial Beach was a popular resort town in the early to mid-20th century, before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge made ocean beaches on the Delmarva Peninsula more accessible to visitors from Washington, D.C. Because the Maryland state line ended at the "low water mark" of Virginia's Potomac River shore, from 1949 to 1958 Colonial Beach offered slot machines in pier casinos extending into legal Maryland waters. Colonial Beach has twice been devastated by hurricanes, Hurricane Hazel in 1954 and Hurricane Isabel in 2003. The family of Alexander Graham Bell maintained a summer home in Colonial Beach, The Bell House which still stands today. Sloan Wilson, author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, retired and died in Colonial Beach.

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