Melfa, VA

Melfa is an Accomack County town on Virginia's Eastern Shore, the narrow peninsula between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The town was incorporated by Accomack County Circuit Court order on April 12, 1951. U.S. Route 13 supplies the main north-south road connection along the Shore, passing the town's fields, woods, and small centers. Melfa sits in a region where the road map and the agricultural map have always been closely connected.

Eastern Shore Community College occupies a 115-acre campus on U.S. Route 13 with a Melfa address, giving the town a recognizable educational connection beyond its municipal limits. Accomack County's older economy included a major potato trade, and the peninsula's farmland remains part of the region's visual character. Melfa is a mid-century incorporated town in an older rural landscape: a small local government set among fields and shoreline, with Route 13 and the community college providing its clearest present-day reference points. Its story follows the peninsula's fields and shoreline.