The Lynnhaven River is a tidal estuary

Estuary

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 located in the independent city

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 of Virginia Beach

Virginia Beach, Virginia

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, Virginia

Virginia

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, in the United States

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, and flows into the Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay

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 west of Cape Henry

Cape Henry

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 at Lynnhaven Inlet, beyond which is Lynnhaven Roads. It has a small, developed watershed covering 64 square miles (165.8 km²), terminating at Lynnhaven Bay. It was once famous along the East Coast of the United States

East Coast of the United States

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 for its oysters, which declined through pollution and runoff. It is now being restored by the Lynnhaven River Now restoration project.

Notable historic residences near the entrance include the Adam Keeling House

Adam Keeling House

The Adam Keeling House is a historic house in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.The house was likely built at some point after 1680. It is the second oldest surviving house in Virginia Beach...

, Adam Thoroughgood House

Adam Thoroughgood House

The Adam Thoroughgood House is a brick house in located within the neighborhood of Thoroughgood, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was at one time thought to have been built in 1636, but recent research has placed its construction ca. 1720. The building underwent major restorations in 1923 and in the...

, and Ferry Plantation House

Ferry Plantation House

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 and the area was the site of the early colonial settlement of Henry Town

Henry Town

Henry Town, Henry Towne, or Henries Towne was an early English colonial settlement in Virginia, now in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in the United States...

.

Adam Thoroughgood was from King's Lynn in Norfolk, England. Many locations in Virginia Beach, including the Lynnhaven River, Lynn Shores, Thalia Lynn, Lynnhaven Road (parkway, drive, etc.) are named Lynn after King's Lynn.