SOLD! 22 Acres of Residential and Recreational Land For Sale in Suffolk VA!

22 acres of tall mature hardwoods and pines with abundant wildlife and still convenient to everything! This tract is just waiting for a custom home - Your Custom Home!

Great property for custom home site and recreation! This location has a solid country atmosphere and yet only minutes from shopping, restaurants, and a hospital. 22 acres of tall timber made up of pines and hardwoods. With driveway pipe already in, it is just waiting for a little clearing for your custom home site. You can then enjoy the rest as you hike, 4-wheel, camp, shoot, hunt, or all of the above. Wildlife is abundant in this area. Lots of deer sign including buck rubs everywhere! Turkeys all over the place as well. Several tiers of beaver ponds on the north side of the property along the woods line and crop fields. This makes a great edge for the wildlife to move back and forth. Short ride to the highway; make a left or a right and then less than 30 minutes to Peninsula or the Southside in the Hampton Roads area. Soil maps indicate good for conventional septic system. City says municipal water out front. Priced well below city assessment. This is a unique tract of land, come see!

Suffolk is located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area which also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach, as well as other smaller cities, counties, and towns of Hampton Roads. With miles of waterfront property on the Nansemond and James River, present day Suffolk was formed in 1974 after consolidating with Nansemond County and the towns of Holland and Whaleyville.

Suffolk was founded by English colonists in 1742 as a port town on the Nansemond River in the Virginia Colony. Originally known as Constant's Warehouse, for John Constant, Suffolk was renamed after Royal Governor William Gooch's home of Suffolk, a county in East Anglia, England. Before European contact, indigenous American tribes lived in the region for thousands of years. At the time of English settlement, the Nansemond Indians lived along the river. In the early colonial years, the English cultivated tobacco as a commodity crop, but later turned to mixed farming. It became the county seat of Nansemond County in 1750.

Early in its history, Suffolk became a land transportation gateway to the areas east of it in South Hampton Roads. Before the American Civil War, both the Portsmouth and Roanoke Railroad and the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad were built through Suffolk, early predecessors of 21st century Class 1 railroads operated by CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern, respectively. Other railroads and later major highways followed after the war.

Suffolk became an incorporated town in 1808. In 1910, it incorporated as a city and separated from Nansemond County. However, it remained the seat of Nansemond County until 1972, when its former county became the independent city of Nansemond. In 1974, the independent cities of Suffolk and Nansemond merged under Suffolk's name and charter.

Peanuts grown in the surrounding areas became a major industry for Suffolk. Notably, Planters' Peanuts was established in Suffolk beginning in 1912. Suffolk was the 'birthplace' of Mr. Peanut, the mascot of Planters' Peanuts. For many years, the call-letters of local AM radio station WLPM stood for World's Largest Peanut Market.