Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurant

Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia, on the Atlantic Ocea n at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. Although Fairfax cheap airline tickets to new york County is the most populous jurisdiction in the state of Virginia, Virginia Beach is the most populous city in the state, as well as the 39th largest city in the United States cheap airline tickets to new york , with a population of 437,994 according to the 2010 Census
Virginia Beach is the easternmost city of the Hampton Roads (or Tidewater ) area that makes up the core of the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA . This area, known as America s First Region , also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake , Hampton , Newport News , Norfolk , Portsmouth , and Suffolk , as well as other smaller cities, counties and towns of Hampton Roads.
Virginia Beach is a resort city with miles of beaches and hundreds of hotels, motels, and restaurants along its oceanfront. Every year the city hosts the East Coast Surfing Championships as well as the North American Sand Soccer Championship, a beach soccer tournament . It is also home to several cheap airline tickets to new york state parks, several long-protected beach areas, three military bases, a number of large corporations, two universities, Edgar Cayce s Association for Research and Enlightenment, and numerous historic sites. Near the point where the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean meet, Cape Henry was the site of the first landing of the English colonists, who eventually settled in Jamestown, on April 26, 1607.
The city is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest pleasure beach in the world. It is located cheap airline tickets to new york at the southern end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel , the longest bridge-tunnel cheap airline tickets to new york complex in the world
In 1607, after a voyage of 144 days, three ships headed by Captain Christopher Newport carrying 105 men and boys made their first landfall in the New World where the Atlantic Ocean meets the southern mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in the northeastern part of the city. They named it Cape Henry, after Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales , the eldest son of King James I of England . However, these English colonists of the Virginia Company of London left the area, as they were under orders to seek a site further inland which would be more sheltered from ships of competing European countries. They created their first permanent settlement at Jamestown
Adam Thoroughgood (1604–1640) of King s Lynn , Norfolk , England is one of the earliest Englishmen to settle in the area which became Virginia Beach. At the age of 18, he became an indentured servant to pay for passage cheap airline tickets to new york to the Virginia Colony. He earned his freedom and became a leading citizen of the area. In 1629, he was elected to the House of Burgesses for Elizabeth Cittie [sic], one of four citties (or incorporations) which were subdivided areas established in 1619