Editing Poquoson, Virginia (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Poquoson, Virginia Museum Marsh Path.JPG|thumb|View from the Poquoson Museum's marsh path.]]

Prior to [[World War II]] and [[Cold War]]-era expansions of nearby military bases and defense industries, and [[white flight]] from the nearby cities of Hampton and Newport News following the [[racial integration]] of schools that rapidly turned the area into a bedroom community, Poquoson was a sleepy rural area with many small [[family farms]], commercial wharves, seafood packing houses, and boat yards that built and repaired [[log canoe]]s, [[oyster buy-boat]]s, and [[Chesapeake Bay deadrise]] work boats used by the local waterman. The annual Poquoson Seafood Festival<ref name="Poquoson Seafood Festival">{{cite web
| url = http://www.poquosonseafoodfestival.com/
| title = Poquoson Seafood Festival
| access-date = 2013-05-21
| publisher = City of Poquoson
}}</ref> which celebrates Poquoson's heritage is the biggest event in Poquoson. Events at the Friday - Sunday festival include work boat races, singers/bands, vendors, food, crafts, children's entertainment, carnival rides, and sometimes even fireworks.

The Poquoson Museum,<ref name="Poquoson Museum">{{cite web
| url = http://www.poquosonmuseum.com/
| title = Poquoson Museum
| access-date = 2013-05-21
| publisher = City of Poquoson
}}</ref> founded in 2003, is located on a 16-acre parcel that contains a circa 1900 farm house, agricultural out buildings, frontage along the marshes of Topping Creek and a country store known as ‘Miss Becky’s Store’ that served local residents for many years. In April 2013 the museum completed work on a marsh walk that incorporates 750 feet of raised platforms with signs highlighting different native wildlife and plant life.<ref name="Poquoson Museum Marsh Walk">"[https://www.dailypress.com/2013/04/11/poquoson-museum-to-debut-new-marsh-walk-book/ Poquoson Museum to debut new marsh walk, book]." ''[[Daily Press (Virginia)|Daily Press]].'' April 11, 2013. Retrieved on May 21, 2013.</ref>