Waqua

Waqua Creek belongs to the Nottoway River basin in the inland country of southern Virginia. The Nottoway people lived west of the falls and spoke an Iroquoian language; their towns stood on streams feeding the river. As colonial settlement spread inland, roads were laid out through the same watershed. In 1733 the Brunswick court ordered a road cleared from the Nottoway River to Waqua and appointed local inhabitants to help maintain the route.