Adam Thoroughgood House
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please discuss this issue on the talk page or replace this tag with a more specific message. This article has been tagged since April 2006. |
The Adam Thoroughgood House, is a brick house in located within the neighborhood of Thoroughgood, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The earliest portion was built in 1636. Fully-restored, it currently serves as a museum. Much of the current structure was most likely the house of the grandson of Adam Thoroughgood (1604-1640), an indentured servant who arrived in Virginia in 1622, became a community leader, a member of the House of Burgesses at Jamestown, and was granted a piece of land in 1635.
Adam Thoroughgood was from Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England, and the naming of many local features can be traced back to his childhood home, including the Lynnhaven River, the City of Norfolk, and Norfolk County and the City of South Norfolk (the last two of which combined to become the new City of Chesapeake in 1963). It is not the only 17th century house in Virginia Beach to survive; across the Lynnhaven River is the Adam Keeling House.
