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Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach is in Virginia Beach City, with approximately 450,000 residents.

Well-Known Places in Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach Oceanfront, Virginia Aquarium, First Landing State Park.

Virginia Beach Business Districts

• Town Center
• Oceanfront
• Lynnhaven
• Newtown Road

Major Employers in Virginia Beach

Naval Air Station Oceana, Sentara Healthcare, STIHL, Anthem.

About Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach is the most populous city in Virginia, an independent city where the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic and where America's first permanent English colonists first stepped ashore in 1607. It holds the Guinness World Record for the world's longest pleasure beach and hosts the U.S. Navy's East Coast master jet base at NAS Oceana. It is also the hometown of Pharrell Williams, whose "Something in the Water" festival put the oceanfront on the modern music map.

History of Virginia Beach

• English colonists bound for Jamestown made their first landfall at Cape Henry on April 26, 1607, in what is now northeastern Virginia Beach
• Cape Henry was named for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I
• Developed as a resort after an 1887 hotel and a railroad connected it to Norfolk

Landmarks and Places in Virginia Beach

• The 34-foot, 12.5-ton King Neptune statue at Neptune Park (31st Street), sculpted by Paul DiPasquale and dedicated in 2005
• The Old Cape Henry Lighthouse (1791) at Fort Story, one of the first federally funded lighthouses
• The Cape Henry Memorial Cross marking the 1607 first landing

The Virginia Beach Economy

• Three major pillars: tourism, defense and real estate
• Tourism draws roughly 2.75 million visitors and supports thousands of oceanfront hospitality jobs
• Naval Air Station Oceana, the U.S. Navy's East Coast master jet base and home of its fighter-attack fleet, is a major employer

Community Life in Virginia Beach

• The Neptune Festival, held every fall since 1973, is ranked among the top festivals on the East Coast
• "Something in the Water," created by Virginia Beach native Pharrell Williams, launched in 2019 and drew national acts to the oceanfront
• The 3-mile oceanfront boardwalk, one of the longest in the world, is the center of resort-city life

Local reference: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, www.britannica.com