Like Portland, Oregon, and Portland, Maine; Vancouver, Washington, and Vancouver, B.C.; or Long Beach, Washington, and Long Beach, California, it turns out that yet another Pacific Northwest city has a “twin” in another part of the world.
SeaTac, Washington, please allow me to introduce you to Seatack, Virginia.
The eastern Seatack is a neighborhood in the coastal city of Virginia Beach, Virginia. It’s considered one of the earliest communities in the United States of formerly enslaved Black people, who settled there in large numbers not long after the Civil War.
But the history of Seatack — and its unusual name — goes back to an even earlier conflict: the
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