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Northampton County, Virginia
Northampton County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,389.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/51/51131.html )〕 Its county seat is Eastville.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕
Northampton and Accomack Counties comprise the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
The county is the center of the late Eocene meteor strike that resulted in the Chesapeake Bay impact crater.
==History==
When English colonists first arrived in the area in the early 1600s, the Virginia Eastern Shore region was governed by Debedeavon (aka "The Laughing King"), paramount chief of the ''Accawmacke'' clans who numbered around 2000 at the time. The former name of the county was Accomac Shire, one of the original shires of Virginia. In 1642, the name was changed to Northampton County by the English, to eliminate "heathen" names in the New World. (In England, "shires" and "counties" were the same thing). In 1663, Northampton County was split into two counties that still exist today. The northern two thirds took the original Accomac name, while the southern third remained as Northampton.
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