Virginia's Middle Peninsula has remained outside the mainstream Tidewater life most of its existence. Effectively isolated from the development of Tidewater by the York River, the Middle Peninsula developed a clannishness that persists even to this day. Even after the Coleman Bridge replace the ferry from Yorktown to Gloucester Point, it took a number of years for "outsiders" to enter with confidence. Agriculture and seafood fashioned the lifestyle of the Middle Peninsula for more than three hundred and fifty years, changed only with the land speculation that followed World War II. The wave of people that followed, including urban residents looking for summer homes, retired industrialists and military officers, actors and actresses, and real estate agents, brought new prosperity to the area, and initiated development that has made Gloucester Point one of the fastest-growing areas in Tidewater. The Middle Peninsula is made up of the counties of: Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex, King William, King and Queen, Essex, and Caroline.
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Middle Peninsula
