113 Acres Offers

Ranch Description

Great property with large acreage where the wildlife is abundant offering country atmosphere and convenient to everything.

Great opportunity for a home site and recreation all in one. This parcel was cut 11 years ago and the hardwoods were left standing. 12 acres +/- fronting Okelly Rd of uplands can be used for that custom home you have been dreaming of. Great for a weekend getaway until then. Spend your time hunting, hiking, 4 wheeling, and any other thing the countryside offers and do it right out your back door. Wildlife abounds in this area. Convenient to Suffolk & Franklin where you will find shopping, banks, restaurants, & hospitals. Less than an hour to most of Hampton Roads. Frontage on 2 paved city maintained roads. Good for alternative/engineered septic system. Call at or email him at to discuss or set up a time to 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.