by Larry Chowning
The eighth annual Urbanna Founders Day celebration will be presented on Saturday, August 7, to commemorate the colonial history of the Town of Urbanna.
The town was created in June 1680 on paper by the Colonial Assembly through the Act of Cohabitation that was designed to establish port towns throughout Virginia.
The act specified that 19 tobacco ports of entry towns throughout Virginia be established and that each county set aside 50 acres for a port and market town. Town development started in 1705.
The 50 acres in Middlesex was cut from Rosegill, the colonial planation of the Ralph Wormley family, one of the most powerful families in Virginia’s colonial history.
During those times, the economic engine of….
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