Virginian-Pilot Correspondent. For years, the official designation by the Board of Geographic Names was Negro Head Rock. L I also did a piece on urban legends in Virginia you might remember Bunny Man Bridge and the Vampire of Hollywood Cemetery. The mysterious ship was headed right for Feribee, whose calls went unnoticed by the ships crew and who maneuvered his small skiff in a panic as it became clear that it was on a collision course. It just chases people away because it seemingly likes its privacy. 2023 Lee County Virginia Tourism ~ iLoveLee.org ~ All Rights Reserved. He led a secluded life on his farm, now known as Snow Hill Farm. Over the years, causes of insanity or psychosis included epilepsy, abortion, emancipation, typhoid fever and my personal favorite - marriage. Topics in the Lee County, Virginia data profile include: Populations and People; Income and Poverty; Education; Employment; Housing; Health; Business and Economy; Families and Living Arrangements; Race and Ethnicity Is this just an old, creepy patch of woods saturated with dark history or are are there really some unknown powers that make this place deserving of the title of one of the most haunted places in America? Yet the sheer persistence of these stories, and the myriad accounts going back over 200 years are enough to give one pause and wonder if there is perhaps something more to it. Virginia Tech. Depending on the version of the tale, the bandits then either headed out to sea and were killed in a storm, or were captured and put to death for their crimes. The story goes that a Shawnee tribe captured Mary and her two young sons in 1755 during the raid of Drapers Meadow. amzn_assoc_asins = "0578390205"; Let us take a look at the weird and very often terrifying cursed woods of Virginia. A few years later Daniel Boone and numberless pioneers passed through it on the way to Kentucky. The original Lee County Personal Property Tax Lists are held at the Library of Virginia. (Petersburg) If the history of this facility isnt enough to horrify you, then happenings that are said to still go on, will. Along the picturesque coast of Chesapeake Bay, located in the Tidewater area of Mathews County, Virginia is the quaint, sleepy little town of Diggs. W X LEE COUNTY, Va. (WYMT) - Two people from Kentucky are facing multiple charges following an undercover drug buy in Lee County, Virginia. One of the rumors about these lost treasures is that they have a way of making those who look for them disappear. Lee County is named for Henry Lee, Governor of Virginia, 1791-1794.