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Irvington is a town on the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County, Virginia, United States. The population was 432 at the 2010 census. Located on a peninsula known as the Northern Neck, it has been designated a historic district.

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History

From 1871 until 1893, the town was called “Carter’s Creek Wharf” or simply “Carter’s Creek”, since steamboats docked at the relatively deep water confluence of a tributary that had much earlier been called “Cossotomen Creek” and later “Carter’s Creek” after early settler John Carter, Sr., the father of the powerful colonial era politician King Carter, who was the Virginia agent for the Northern Neck Proprietary. The town formally adopted the name “Irvington” to honor Baltimore native Captain Levin Irvington following a 1891 referendum, since mail had been often confused between this town and that of Center Cross in relatively nearby Essex County.

The original Chesapeake Academy, 1889–1907, was located in Irvington.

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Geography

Irvington is located at 37°39′41″N 76°25′9″W / 37.66139°N 76.41917°W / 37.66139; -76.41917 (37.6615, −76.4191).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.8 square miles (4.7 km), of which, 1.5 square miles (3.9 km) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.9 km) of it (18.13%) is water.

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