Chuckatuck Historic District

Chuckatuck is a small village in northern Suffolk, Virginia, centered where Kings Highway meets Godwin Boulevard. The historic district takes in about sixty residences, a Methodist church and a few commercial buildings, with most houses set back similarly on lots with mature landscaping. Buildings date from roughly 1780 to the mid-twentieth century. Early Federal dwellings such as the Cannon and Howell houses sit alongside Queen Anne houses, American Foursquares, Bungalows and Colonial Revival homes. Several small bungalows were reportedly built to house employees of the Lone Star Cement Company. The Gwaltney Store, a converted early nineteenth-century dwelling, marks the main intersection. Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church was rebuilt in 1893. The district reflects the village's role as a local trading center, its growth in the early twentieth century, and its connection to Mills Godwin, twice governor of Virginia, who grew up in a Kings Highway house.