Norfolk Virginian, May 16, 1890

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Infrastructure -- Commercial - Real estateInfrastructure -- Public : TownsMoral -- Murder

Onancock.

From recent sales of land in Cape Charles large increases in value are shown.

Onancock has about twelve hundred inhabitants, thirty-nine stores and shops, fifteen or twenty offices and fully two hundred residences, all handsome and modern built. Last, but not least, Onancock takes the palm inasmuch as we have the prettiest girls here of any on the shore, and enthusiasts go so far as to say in the State. It has been only thirty seven months since the disastrous fire, which swept the entire business portion of the town away.

The man Lewis, who shot and killed young George Twyford, several months ago, at Leemont, in the upper part of this county, and who left for parts unknown immediately afterwards, has, as far as THE VIRGINIAN's representative by diligent search been able to learn, never been heard from.