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First Inhabitants of Virginia Beach The historic Chesepian or Chesapeake Indians lived in two ‘towns’ (or villages), Apasus and Chesepioc, both near the Chesapeake Bay in what is now the independent city of Virginia Beach. The unearthed site of Chesepioc is located in the present Great Neck area of the city. Archaeologists and other persons have found numerous Native American artifacts, such as arrowheads, stone axes, pottery, and beads in Great Neck Point. Thought to be eastern-Algonquian speaking, archaeological evidence suggests that the original Chesepian Indian people belonged to the Carolina Algonquian. Human remains of 64 individuals removed from the village site, due to modern road building and housing construction, in the 1970’s and 1980’s, were reburied in nearby First Landing State Park in 1997.