Recognizing Living History: Virginia Beach's African American Seatack community

In Virginia Beach's Seatack community, families can trace their lineage back generations, and in some cases, even back as early as the 1800s.
The historic African American community prospered in Princess Anne County, miles away in the shadow of a segregated Virginia Beach Oceanfront. As Princess Anne County dissolved into the expansion of the city of Virginia Beach, the Seatack community grew as well, growing as a self-sustaining community of African Americans through the mid-1900s.
Last December, Seatack landed on Virginia's landmark registrar of historic places through the Department of Historic Resources.
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