Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Claremont, VA

Claremont is an incorporated town in Surry County, Virginia, located on the south bank of the James River across from the Jamestown area.

As of the 2020 census, Claremont had a population of 305 people, down from 378 residents in the 2010 census.

At the 2000 census there were 343 people living in 147 households and 99 families in the town, with 240 housing units reflecting its many seasonal riverfront homes.

A granite marker in a circle in the center of town commemorates the landing here on May 5, 1607 of English settlers, shortly before the founding of Jamestown across the river.

The area was near the principal Native American village called Quioughcohanock, and English and Scottish emigrants had settled around Claremont by about 1632.

In 1649 Arthur Allen patented lands in Surry County and by 1655 built Allen's Brick House; his son Arthur Allen II became Speaker of the House of Burgesses.

Claremont received its name during the colonial era from the royal residence in Surrey, England, matching the name of Surry County.

By the late 17th and early 18th centuries Claremont was a busy port town that shipped many goods, especially hogsheads of tobacco, on the James River.

The town was incorporated in 1886 after Maryland developer J. Frank Mancha took on the Claremont development project in 1879, promoting land sales on the more than 12,000-acre Claremont estate inherited by Willie Allen after the Civil War.

Claremont gained railroad service and served for a while as a terminus, but after later use hauling lumber on the Surry, Sussex and Southampton Railway the rails were removed in the late 1930s.