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NASSAWADOX, TOWN OF
County of Northampton.
Incorporated by order of the Circuit Court of
Northampton County, December 30, 1958
(Court Order Book 19, p. 216). Note: a photocopy of the
circuit court order is
available in the Legislative Reference Center at the
Division of Legislative Services.
VIRGINIA:
In the Circuit Court of the County of Northampton, in
the vacation of said Court,
on the 30th day of December A. D., 1958.
In the Matter of the Incorporation of the Town of
Nassawadox, Northampton
County, Virginia.
ORDER
This day came the petitioners by their attorney and the
court having considered
the petition for the incorporation of the unincorporated
town of Nassawadox,
Northampton County, Virginia, which is in the following
words and figures, to-wit:
"1. That Nassawadox is an unincorporated town situate in
Northampton County,
Virginia.
2. That more than twenty (20) of the undersigned
petitioners are duly qualified
voters and reside within said unincorporated town,
within the boundaries as hereinafter
set forth.
3. That the number of inhabitants of the said town
exceeds three hundred (300)
and does not exceed five thousand (5000).
4. That it will be to the best interest of the
inhabitants of the said unincorporated
town, within the boundaries as hereinafter set forth,
that the said town be incorporated;
that the prayer of your petitioners for incorporation
thereof is reasonable; that the general
good of the community affected will be promoted by
incorporation; and that the area of
land designated to be embraced within the limits of said
town is not excessive.
5. That the area to be embraced within the limits of the
said town of Nassawadox
prayed to be incorporated is approximately 260 acres
(260 A. approx.); and that the metes
and bounds of said town prayed to be incorporated are as
follows:
Beginning at a Highway Marker located on the Southwest
Right of Way of
Virginia Route 606, also known as the Nassawadox Cross
Road, the Point of Reference
for said Beginning Point being the center line of said
Virginia Route 606 at the Southeast
side of the present concrete surface of U. S. Route 13,
said reference point being located
in a Southeasterly direction 3140.98 feet, from the True
Point of Beginning; thence South
57 deg. 59 min. West 255.0 ft. to a Point; thence South
30 deg. 35 min. East 1023 ft., plus
or minus, to a Concrete Marker, said marker being
located on the Southwest Corner of
the property of John M. Holland; thence South 33 deg. 24
min. East 770.0 ft., plus or
minus, to a Concrete Marker, said Concrete Marker being
located on the Northwest side
of property of Dr. J. R. Hamilton; thence South 70 deg.
20 min. West 1655 ft., plus or
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minus, along a Random Line approximately parallel to a
Ditch and Branch, said Ditch
and Branch being the true corporate limit; thence South
45 deg. 50 min. West 775 ft.,
plus or minus, along a Random Line approximately
parallel to a Branch and Ditch, said
Branch and Ditch being the true corporate limit, to a
Point on the Western Right of Way
of Virginia Route 609, also known as the back road to
Franktown; thence South 39 deg.
40 min. East 97.0 ft. along said Western Right of Way of
said Virginia Route 609 to a
Point; thence South 29 deg. 05 min. East 225.7 ft. to a
Point along said Western Right of
Way of said Virginia Route 609; thence South 43 deg. 25
min. East 386.1 ft. to a Point on
said Western side of said Route 609; thence South 46
deg. 25 min. East 45.0 ft. along the
Western Right of Way of said Virginia Route 609 to a
Point, said Point being the
Northeast Corner of property of Maggie Heath; thence
South 43 deg. 35 min. West 208.6
ft. along the Northwest property line of said Maggie
Heath to a Point; thence South 46
deg. 25 min. East 208.5 ft. along the Southwest property
line of said Maggie Heath to a
Point; thence South 44 deg. 35 min. West 88.4 ft. to a
Point; thence South 46 deg. 25
min. East 440.2 ft. along the Northeast property line of
the Collins property to a Point;
thence South 65 deg. 50 min. East 525 ft., plus or
minus, across the Connor property and
Virginia Route 619, locally known as the Airport Road,
to a Point on the Southeast Right
of Way of said Virginia Route 619, said Point also being
the Northerly Corner of the
Fatherly property; thence South 49 deg. 30 min. East
438.2 ft. along the Fatherly property
line to a Point; thence South 81 deg. 40 min. East 349.8
ft. to a Pipe located on the
Northwest Right of Way of U. S. Route 13; thence South
33 deg. 27 min. West 353.7 ft.
along the Northwest Right of Way of said U. S. Route 13
to a Point in the Center Line of
a ditch; thence South 61 deg. 00 min. West 285 ft., plus
or minus, to a Point in the Center
Line of said Ditch; thence South 39 deg. 20 min. West
275 ft., plus or minus, to a Point in
Center Line of said Ditch; thence North 44 deg. 32 min.
East 692.6 ft. along the
Southeast property line of Nottingham Brothers, Inc., to
a Pipe; said Pipe being located
on the Southwest Right of Way of said Virginia Route
609; thence South 72 deg. 40 min.
East 260 ft., plus or minus, along said Southwest Right
of Way of Virginia Route 609 and
crossing Virginia Route 600, also known as the Seaside
Road, to a Point located on the
Northwest side of said Virginia Route 600; thence South
57 deg. 52 min. East 120 ft.,
plus or minus, to a Point, said course being parallel
with and located 70 feet from the
Southwest side of the building known as Elliott's old
garage; thence North 41 deg. 24
min. East 762 ft., plus or minus, along the Southeast
boundaries of the existing lots to a
Concrete Marker, said Concrete Marker being located on
the south corner of the R. D.
James lot; thence North 41 deg. 10 min. East 128.82 ft.
along the Southeast side of the R.
D. James lot to a Concrete Marker; thence North 41 deg.
24 min. East 633.80 ft. along
the said Southeast boundaries of the existing lots to a
Concrete Marker, said concrete
marker being located on the Southwest side of the
Woodstock Road and also being the
East Corner of the property of Byron Wescott; thence
North 41 deg. 24 min. East 1137
ft., plus or minus, across the property of A. N. Palmer
to a Point in the center line of
Virginia Route 608, also known as the Brownsville Road;
thence North 64 deg. 00 min.
West 240 ft., plus or minus, along the Center Line of
said Virginia Route 608 to a Point
in the center line of said Virginia Route 600; thence
North 47 deg. 49 min. West 225 ft.
to a Point; thence South 42 deg. 11 min. West 400 ft. to
a Point, said course being
parallel with said Virginia Route 600; thence South 38
deg. 36 min. West 425 ft., plus or
minus, to a Point, said course being parallel with said
Virginia Route 600; thence North
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36 deg. 32 min. West 748 ft., plus or minus, along the
Northeast boundaries of the
existing lots, (said course following in part a certain
ditch) to a Point on the Southeast
Right of Way of the N. Y. P. & N. Railroad; thence North
33 deg. 27 min. East 2360.26
ft. along the said Southeast Right of Way of the said N.
Y. P. & N. Railroad to a Point;
thence North 53 deg. 25 min. West 116 ft., crossing said
Right of Way of the N. Y. P. &
N. Railroad and U. S. Route 13 to an Iron Rod at the
Northeast Corner of the property of
I. Lee Kellam, also being the Southeast Corner of the
Dave Dunton Road; thence North
53 deg. 25 min. West 200.0 ft. along the Southwest line
of the said Dave Dunton Road,
said line also being the Northeast boundary of I. Lee
Kellam, to a Pipe; thence South 33
deg. 27 min. West 246.86 ft. along the Northwest
boundaries of the existing lots to a
Concrete Marker at the Western Corner of the property of
A. N. Bell; thence North 53
deg. 25 min. West 185 ft., plus or minus, in an
extension of the Southwest boundary line
of A. N. Bell to a Point; thence South 33 deg. 27 min.
West 90.0 ft., plus or minus, to a
Concrete Marker, said marker being located on the
Southwest line of the Rogers Outlet,
also being the Northernmost corner of the J. L. Walker,
Jr. Subdivision; thence South 65
deg. 51 min. West 1503.55 ft. along the Northwestern
boundary of the J. L. Walker, Jr.
Subdivision to a Concrete Marker at the Western-most
corner of the property of W. B.
Widgeon, Jr.; thence 36 deg. 15 min. West 120 ft., plus
or minus, along the Northeast
boundary of the existing lots to a Point in the center
line of a Ditch; thence North 58 deg.
13 min. East 42 ft., plus or minus, along center line of
said Ditch to a Point in the center
line of said Ditch; thence North 33 deg. 38 min. East
569.8 ft. to a concrete marker at the
Northern-most corner of the property of J. E. Douglas,
also being the Easternmost corner
of the property of J. E. Tankard; thence North 33 deg.
30 min. West 460 ft., plus or
minus, to a concrete marker at the Northern-most corner
of the property of Dr. H. L.
Denoon, also being the Eastern-most corner of the
property of Dr. J. Rogers Mapp;
thence North 32 deg. 20 min. West 885 ft., plus or
minus, along a line approximating the
Northeast boundaries of the existing lots to a Point;
thence South 57 deg. 59 min. West
300.00 ft. to a Highway Marker on the Northeast Right of
Way of said Virginia Route
606; thence South 57 deg. 59 min. West, crossing the
Right of Way of said Virginia
Route 606 to the True Point of Beginning.
The metes and bounds hereinbefore set forth are shown on
a plat of survey,
entitled "Town of Nassawadox, Northampton County,
Virginia" dated October and
November, 1958, by Geo. H. Badger, Jr., C.S., marked
Exhibit A, to be presented to the
Court along with this petition.
WHEREFORE, your petitioners pray that the said
unincorporated town embraced
within the metes and bounds hereinbefore set forth shall
be incorporated as the "Town of
Nassawadox," under the provisions of the Statute laws of
Virginia for such cases made
and provided, and that all such other things may be
ordered and done as may be
necessary for the accomplishment thereof.
And your petitioners will ever pray, etc.," and having
heard and considered the
evidence presented on behalf of the petitioners and the
argument of counsel, and it
appearing to the court that the said petition with
notice appended of the time and place
that said petition would be presented had been published
in full in the Northampton
Times, a newspaper published in Northampton County,
Virginia, once a week for four
successive weeks, and posted at the front door of the
courthouse of Northampton County,
Virginia, at Eastville for four successive weeks, the
said petition having been published
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as aforesaid for four successive weeks, beginning on the
19th day of November, 1958,
and having been posted at the front door of the
courthouse aforesaid on the 19th day of
November, 1958, and it further appearing to the court
that more than twenty of the
signers of the petition are duly qualified voters of the
unincorporated town of
Nassawadox, Northampton County, Virginia, within the
boundaries thereof designated in
the said petition; and it further appearing to the court
that the said unincorporated town of
Nassawadox within said boundaries lies wholly within
Northampton County, Virginia;
and the court being satisfied that it will be to the
best interest of the inhabitants of the
said town; that the prayer of the petition is
reasonable; that the general good of the
community will be promoted; that the number of
inhabitants of said town exceeds three
hundred (300) and does not exceed five thousand (5000)
within the metes and bounds
thereof as hereinafter set forth; and that the area of
land designated would be embraced
within said town is not excessive; the court, in the
vacation thereof, doth order and decree
that the unincorporated town of Nassawadox be, and the
same hereby is, incorporated as
a town by the name and style of "The Town of
Nassawadox," but with the metes and
bounds thereof amended as follows, to- wit: Beginning at
a Highway Marker located on
the Southwest Right of Way of Virginia Route 606, also
known as the Nassawadox Cross
Road, the Point of Reference for said Beginning Point
being the center line of said
Virginia Route 606 at the Southeast side of the present
concrete surface of U. S. Route
13, said reference point being located in a
Southeasterly direction 3140.98 feet, from the
True Point of Beginning; thence South 57 deg. 59 min.
West 255.0 ft. to a Point; thence
South 30 deg. 35 min. East 1023 ft., plus or minus, to a
Concrete Marker, said marker
being located on the Southwest Corner of the property of
John M. Holland; thence South
33 deg. 24 min. East 770.0 ft., plus or minus, to a
Concrete Marker, said Concrete Marker
being located on the Northwest side of property of Dr.
J. R. Hamilton; thence South 70
deg. 20 min. West 1655 ft., plus or minus, along a
Random Line approximately parallel
to a Ditch and Branch, said Ditch and Branch being the
true corporate limit; thence South
45 deg. 50 min. West 775 ft., plus or minus, along a
Random Line approxirnately parallel
to a Branch and Ditch, said Branch and Ditch being the
true corporate limit, to a Point on
the Western Right of Way of Virginia Route 609 also
known as the back road to
Franktown; thence South 39 deg. 40 min. East 97.0 ft.
along said Western Right of Way
of said Virginia Route 609 to a Point; thence South 29
deg. 05 min. East 225.7 ft. to a
Point along said Western Right of Way of said Virginia
Route 609; thence South 43 deg.
25 min. East 386.1 ft. to a Point on said Western side
of said Route 609; thence South 46
deg. 25 min. East 45.0 ft. along the Western Right of
Way of said Virginia Route 609 to a
Point, said Point being the Northeast Corner of property
of Maggie Heath; thence South
43 deg. 35 min. West 208.6 ft. along the Northwest
property line of said Maggie Heath to
a Point; thence South 46 deg. 25 min. East 208.5 ft.
along the Southwest property line of
said Maggie Heath to a Point; thence South 44 deg. 35
min. West 88.4 ft. to a Point;
thence South 46 deg. 25 min. East 440.2 ft. along the
Northeast property line of the
Collins property to a Point; thence South 65 deg. 50
min. East 525 ft., plus or minus,
across the Connor property and Virginia Route 619,
locally known as the Airport Road,
to a Point on the Southeast Right of Way of said
Virginia Route 619, said Point also
being the Northerly Corner of the Fatherly property;
thence South 49 deg. 30 min. East
438.2 ft. along the Fatherly property line to a Point,
thence South 81 deg. 40 min. East
349.8 ft. to a Pipe located on the Northwest Right of
Way of U. S. Route 13; thence
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South 33 deg. 27 min. West 353.7 ft. along the Northwest
Right of Way of said U. S.
Route 13 to a Point in the Center Line of a Ditch;
thence South 61 deg. 00 min. West 285
ft., plus or minus, to a Point in the Center Line of
said Ditch; thence South 39 deg. 20
min. West 275 ft., plus or minus, to a Point in Center
Line of said Ditch; thence North 44
deg. 32 min. East 692.6 ft. along the Southeast property
line of Nottingham Brothers, Inc.
to a Pipe, said Pipe being located on the Southwest
Right of Way of said Virginia Route
609; thence South 72 deg. 40 min. East 260 ft., plus or
minus, along said Southwest Right
of Way of Virginia Route 609 and crossing Virginia Route
600, also known as the
Seaside Road, to a Point located on the Northwest side
of said Virginia Route 600; thence
South 57 deg. 52 min. East 120 ft., plus or minus, to a
Point, said course being parallel
with and located 70 feet from the Southwest side of the
building known as Elliott's old
garage; thence North 41 deg. 24 min. East 320 ft., plus
or minus to a Concrete Marker,
said marker being the Southwest Corner of the A. A.
Arnold property; thence South 29
deg. 45 mins. West 199.86 ft. to a Concrete Marker;
thence North 41 deg. 24 min. East
504.36 ft. to a Point on the Northeast Side of a 16 ft.
outlet; thence following the
Northeast side of said outlet North 43 deg. 06 min. West
190.00 ft. to a Point; thence
North 41 deg. 24 min. East 4.00 ft. to a Concrete
Marker, said Concrete Marker being
located on the south corner of the R. D. James lot;
thence North 41 deg. 10 min. East
128.82 ft. along the South-east side of the R. D. James
lot to a Concrete Marker; thence
North 41 deg. 24 min. East 633.80 ft. along the said
Southeast boundaries of the existing
lots to a Concrete Marker, said concrete marker being
located on the Southwest side of
the Woodstock Road and also being the East Corner of the
property of Byron Wescott;
thence North 41 deg. 24 min. East 1137 ft., plus or
minus, across the property of A. N.
Palmer to a Point in the center line of Virginia Route
608, also known as the Brownsville
Road; thence North 64 deg. 00 min. West 240 ft., plus or
minus, along the Center Line of
said Virginia Route 608 to a Point in the center line of
said Virginia Route 600; thence
North 47 deg. 49 min. West 225 ft. to a Point; thence
South 42 deg. 11 min. West 400 ft.
to a Point, said course being parallel with said
Virginia Route 600; thence South 38 deg.
36 min. West 425 ft. plus or minus, to a Point, said
course being parallel with said
Virginia Route 600; thence North 36 deg. 32 min. West
748 ft., plus or minus, along the
Northeast boundaries of the existing lots (said course
following in part a certain ditch) to
a Point on the Southeast Right of Way of the N. Y. P. &
N. Railroad; thence North 33
deg. 27 min. East 2360.26 ft. along the said Southeast
Right of Way of the said N. Y. P.
& N. Railroad to a Point; thence North 53 deg. 25 min.
West 116 ft., crossing said Right
of Way of the N. Y. P. & N. Railroad and U. S. Route 13
to an Iron Rod at the Northeast
Corner of the property of I. Lee Kellam, also being the
Southeast Corner of the Dave
Dunton Road; thence North 53 deg. 25 min. West 200.0 ft.
along the Southwest line of
the said Dave Dunton Road, said line also being the
Northeast boundary of I. Lee
Kellam, to a Pipe; thence South 33 deg. 27 min. West
246.86 ft. along the Northwest
boundaries of the existing lots to a Concrete Marker at
the Western Corner of the
property of A. N. Bell; thence North 53 deg. 25 min.
West 185 ft., plus or minus, in an
extension of the Southwest boundary line of A. N. Bell
to a Point; thence South 33 deg.
27 min. West 90.0 ft., plus or minus, to a Concrete
Marker, said marker being located on
the Southwest line of the Rogers Outlet, also being the
Northern-most corner of the J. L.
Walker, Jr. Subdivision; thence South 65 deg. 51 min.
West 1503.55 ft. along the
Northwestern boundary of the J. L. Walker, Jr.
Subdivision to a Concrete Marker at the
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Western-most corner of the property of W. B. Widgeon,
Jr.; thence 36 deg. 15 min. West
120 ft., plus or minus, along the Northeast boundary of
the existing lots to a Point in the
center line of a Ditch; thence North 58 deg. 13 min.
East 42 ft., plus or minus, along the
center line of said Ditch to a Point in the center line
of said Ditch; thence North 33 deg.
38 min. East 569.8 ft. to a concrete marker at the
Northern-most corner of the property of
J. E. Douglas, also being the Eastern-most corner of the
property of J. E. Tankard; thence
North 33 deg. 30 min. West 460 ft., plus or minus, to a
concrete marker at the Northernmost
corner of the property of Dr. H. L. Denoon, also being
the Eastern-most corner of
the property of Dr. J. Rogers Mapp; thence North 32 deg.
20 min. West 885 ft., plus or
minus, along a line approximating the Northeast
boundaries of the existing lots to a
Point; thence South 57 deg. 59 min. West 300.0 ft. to a
Highway Marker on the Northeast
Right of Way of said Virginia Route 606; thence South 57
deg. 59 min. West, crossing
the Right of Way of said Virginia Route 606 to the True
Point of Beginning, the area
included within the limits of the said Town of
Nassawadox within the boundaries as
amended being approximately 262 acres; and the court
doth further order and decree that
hereafter the inhabitants within the amended boundaries
herein above set forth shall be a
body, politic and corporate with all the powers,
privileges and duties conferred upon and
appertaining to towns under the general law.
It is further ordered and decreed that an election be
held on Tuesday, the 24th day
of February, 1959, at the office of Allen Tilghman, in
the Town of Nassawadox, for the
election of a mayor and six councilmen for said town,
and it is further ordered and
decreed that said mayor and six councilmen, when
elected, shall constitute the council of
said Town.
It is further ordered that the said plat of survey of
the area hereby incorporated as
the Town of Nassawadox made in October and November,
1958, but as amended on the
17th day of December, 1958, be, and the same hereby is,
made a part of this order, and
that the same be recorded, properly indexed, in the
office of the Clerk of this Court.
12/30/58
To Thos. H. James, Clerk"
Enter this order.
JEFF F. WALTER, Judge of the 31st Judicial Circuit.
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