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Poquoson Seafood Festival

Poquoson, VA · Food & Drink

When

October 16–18, 2026

Where

Poquoson Municipal Park, 830 Poquoson Ave · Poquoson · VA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Poquoson Municipal Park celebrates the working watermen's town with steamed crab, oysters, and other Chesapeake Bay seafood each October. Now past its 40th year, the city-run festival reflects Poquoson's identity as one of Virginia's last true fishing communities.

The history within reach

• Poquoson Seafood Festivalsame spot

  Poquoson Municipal Park celebrates the working watermen's town with steamed crab, oysters, and other Chesapeake Bay seafood each October.

• Ella Fitzgerald12 mi

  Born in Newport News and orphaned into a reform school in Hudson, New York, where she was beaten and from which she ran.

• Siege of Yorktown14 mi

  Cornwallis surrendered more than 7,000 troops to combined American and French forces on October 19, 1781, effectively ending major operations in the war..

• Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel opens17 mi

  Seventeen and a half miles of trestle that dives into two mile-long tunnels so shipping can pass overhead, built across open water where the bay meets the Atlantic.

• The Thoroughgood House, one of America's oldest homes19 mi

  One of the oldest brick houses in America, long claimed to be from the 1630s until dendrochronology moved it to about 1719.