- Morattico, Virginia
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Morattico — Unincorporated town — Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia
MoratticoCoordinates: 37°47′21″N 76°37′45″W / 37.78917°N 76.62917°WCoordinates: 37°47′21″N 76°37′45″W / 37.78917°N 76.62917°W Country United States State Virginia County Lancaster Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) - Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4) ZIP codes FIPS code GNIS feature ID Morattico is an unincorporated former post office town along the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County, Virginia, United States. It sits across Morattico Creek from Belle Isle State Park. "Morattico" is an anglicized version of "Moraughticund", the name of a Native American tribe whose primary village may have been on or near this site. In 1608, Captain John Smith mediated a feud between the Moraughticunds and their neighbors, the Rappahannock tribe.
By 1706 the site had been purchased by Joseph Ball I, who began building a house which became known as Morattico Plantation, or simply Morattico.
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Municipalities and communities of Lancaster County, Virginia County seat: Lancaster Towns 
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communitiesAlfonso | Bertrand | Boer | Brook Vale | Chestnut Grove | Christ Church | Foxwells | Good Luck | Grace Point | Griffins Landing | Iberis | Lancaster | Lankford Corner | Litwalton | Lively | McNeals Corner | Merry Point | Milestone | Millenbeck | Mollusk | Monaskon | Morattico | Newtown | North Weems | Nuttsville | Ocran | Ottoman | Palmer | Pierces Corner | Pitmans Corner | Queenstown | Regina | Richtown | Senora | Slabtown | Somers | Taft | Weems | West Irvington | Westland
Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
Categories:- Virginia geography stubs
- Populated places in Lancaster County, Virginia
- Unincorporated communities in Virginia
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