Whaleyville, Virginia
Coordinates: 36°35′18″N 76°41′05″W / 36.58833°N 76.68472°W
Whaleyville, Virginia is an unincorporated community in Suffolk, Virginia. It was formerly an incorporated town located in southern Nansemond County, Virginia. Whaleyville is located midway between the former county seat at downtown Suffolk and the North Carolina border along U.S. Route 13.
Whaleyville is part of the region popularly known as Hampton Roads. The community is represented on Suffolk City Council by Council Member Curtis R. Milteer, Sr.
Whaleyville was named for another town of the same name, Whaleyville, Maryland, located on the Delmarva Peninsula north of Virginia's Eastern Shore. There, Seth Mitchell Whaley (1821–1901) was born and grew up. He was active in the lumber mill business in Maryland.
In 1877, Seth M. Whaley bought a farm in the southern portion of Nansemond County, Virginia and opened a sawmill nearby. He worked in cooperation with Jackson Brothers Lumber Company, which was established in the new village of Whaleyville, Virginia. Soon what became called the "Big Mill" was operating 24 hours a day.
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