Seashore State Park Historic District

Seashore State Park occupies 2,889 acres on the Chesapeake Bay at Cape Henry in Virginia Beach. Planned in 1929 as a seaside companion to Shenandoah National Park, it was developed in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps with guidance from the National Park Service and the Virginia Commission on Conservation and Development. The park is split by State Road 60. North of the road are campgrounds, a beach, and the half-timbered Big "H" Complex, built in 1933-1934 as a restaurant and bath house. South of the road lie swampland with cypress and live oak, nine trails following old logging roads, a picnic area, maintenance and staff areas, and a group of board-and-batten cabins with brick chimneys and screened porches. The district was recognized for its link to the Civilian Conservation Corps and Virginia's state park system, and for a park plan that kept roads, camping, and cabins fitted to the natural terrain. Later campgrounds and cabins are counted as noncontributing.