A history of Hampton,
since 1610

Indigenous people settled in present-day Hampton before 10,000 BCE. In the early 1600s, the Tidewater region was populated by the Algonquian peoples who called the lands Tsenacommacah. The Powhatan Confederacy was made up of over 30 tribes numbering an estimated 25,000 people before the arrival of English colonists.

In December 1606, three ships carrying men and boys left England on a mission sponsored by a proprietary company. Led by Captain Christopher Newport, they sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to North America. After a long voyage, they first landed at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay on the south shore at a place they named Cape Henry (for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, the elder son of their king).

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