Makemie Park, VA

Makemie Park is a tiny, peaceful community tucked along the creeks and tidal marshes of Virginia’s Eastern Shore in Accomack County. Home to just over a hundred residents, it offers a deeply quiet, rural lifestyle surrounded by wooded lanes and open water feeding into Pocomoke Sound. The hamlet takes its name from Francis Makemie, an early Presbyterian minister whose historic gravesite and riverside memorial park still sit along the water near Temperanceville. For anyone looking for absolute solitude and coastal country charm, it is as small and serene as Eastern Shore living gets.