Kemp's Landing, Virginia
| Kempsville | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
 Kempsville
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| Coordinates: 36°49′37″N 76°09′37″W / 36.82694°N 76.16028°WCoordinates: 36°49′37″N 76°09′37″W / 36.82694°N 76.16028°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| Independent city | Virginia Beach |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP codes | 23464, 23462 |
Kempsville was formerly an unincorporated community which was located in Princess Anne County, Virginia. In modern times, it is a community within the urbanized portion the independent city of Virginia Beach, the largest city in Virginia.
The town was originally named Kempe's Landing and was a colonial port at the head of the Eastern Branch Elizabeth River. Under the Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730, one of the 40 tobacco inspection warehouses was chartered : " At Norfolk Town, upon the fort land, in the County of Norfolk; and Kemp's Landing, in Princess Anne, under one inspection. "
On November 14/15th, 1775, it was the location where John Ackiss the son of a former Virginia House of Burgess and six others were killed by Colony of Virginia Governor Lord Dunmore's British forces during the "Battle of Kempe's Landing" . Ackiss and the six others became the first Virginian casualties of the American Revolutionary War. The Daughters of the American Revolution later erected a plaque near the site in 1929 "Skirmish of Kempsville"
The town of Kempsville, established in 1783, was the location of the county seat of Princess Anne County from 1778-1823. After that date, it was moved to the current location at Princess Anne, Virginia.
Emmanuel Episcopal Church circa 1843, was founded on land donated by David Walke to serve families living in Kempsville and the surrounding areas . In time, the town lost its economic importance and Emmanuel became a rural parish until 1963, when it grew along with the community as a part of the "new" city of Virginia Beach (when Virginia Beach and Princess Anne County merged).
Portions of the church's outer walls are original. The cemetery on the church grounds contains the graves of nine veterans of both the Confederate States and United States Armies of the American Civil War who served in the early 1860s, as well as the more recent grave of Allen Jones "Al" "Two Gun" Gettel, a local boy that made his first pitch on the ball fields now preserved as Kempes Landing Park, who grew up to be a major league pitcher for the New York Yankees, the Cleveland Indians, and the Chicago White Sox over a 10-year career (1945–55). [1]
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