James City County, Virginia, USA

James City County occupies a varied section of Virginia’s Tidewater and Piedmont transition, where small cities and towns are connected to surrounding countryside. Waterways and roads cross wooded uplands, river corridors, farms and long-settled communities, linking the county’s communities and working landscapes. The county’s communities grew through Indigenous history, colonial settlement and transportation routes linking Richmond with the Chesapeake, leaving a legacy in older buildings, roads and land-use patterns. The contemporary county draws its identity from education, tourism, agriculture, manufacturing and metropolitan employment, as well as local heritage and the surrounding landscape.