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Splitting of Lower Norfolk County
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In 1691, Lower Norfolk County would be split into two parts: Norfolk County (on the west) and Princess Anne County (on the east); and the entity “Lower Norfolk County” no longer existed. (From 1691 to 1694, the Norfolk County Court House would be located where the Lower Norfolk County Court House had been located.) Although the two counties  extended all the way southward to today’s North Carolina line, the portion of the two counties that would become today’s city of Norfolk included only the northernmost sections, namely: 1) all of Norfolk County north of the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River to the Chesapeake Bay (including today’s Ocean View and Willoughby Bay as well as Willoughby Spit, which did not exist until about 1800); 2) most of the western half of what became the Kempsville Magisterial District of Princess Anne County, from the Eastern Branch to the Chesapeake Bay, including all of Broad Creek and its later-named Lake Taylor and Lake Wright portions, all of the far-eastern branch of Little Creek (today’s East Ocean View, Pretty Lake, etc.), and most of the southwestern branch of Little Creek (today’s Lake Whitehurst, Norfolk International Airport, Azalea Gardens, etc.); and 3) a part of Norfolk County just south of the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River and immediately east of its Southern Branch (today’s Berkley, Campostella, etc.).
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