Wash Woods, Virginia
Coordinates: 36°34′47″N 75°52′23″W / 36.57972°N 75.87306°W
Wash Woods was an unincorporated town on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean in the former Princess Anne County (now the independent City of Virginia Beach), in the southeastern corner of Virginia. It has been abandoned since 1930s, except for the Life Saving Station which remained operational until the mid 1950s. The site of the former town is located within False Cape State Park in Virginia Beach.
According to legend, the community was developed by survivors of a shipwreck. The village’s church and other structures were built using cypress wood that washed ashore from a shipwreck. Around the turn of the 20th century, the area was still inhabited. Wash Woods was home to a United States Coast Guard lifesaving station, a grocery store, two churches, and a school. Three hundred people once lived there, working as fishermen, farmers, hunting guides and manning lifeboats.
Located along the section of ocean known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic, the town of Wash Woods was subject to the severe weather conditions which had brought the lumber to shore to build it. By the 1920s the sea had inundated the narrow sliver of sand so often that townspeople began to leave by the 1930s. Subsequently the site became the location of several hunt clubs. Today, the area is a Virginia state park, adjoining the federally managed Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
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