Settlement Areas of Virginia

• The English settled primarly in the Tidewater Region and the Piedmont Regions.
• The Scot-Irish and Germans settled primarily in the Shenandoah Valley (Valley and Ridge), which was along the Migration Route
• The Africans settled primarily in the Tidewater and Piedmot Region as where the English, the Africans settled in the places that required African-Americans.
• The Native Americans of America of Virginia settled in the Tidewater, Piedmont and the Applachain Plateau where traditional homelands were located.