We Never Knew These American Small Towns Existed, and Now We’re Intrigued

Tangier is a small island off the coast of Virginia in the Chesapeake Bay and was settled very early in America’s creation. You can visit there and feel almost like you’ve stepped back in time. No, it isn’t a living museum like Williamsburg. Instead, the residents still speak the way colonists did hundreds of years ago.

The residents of Tangier have unique accents that aren’t identifiable right away. Are they Southern? Are they British? Yes. They are a mix of both. Linguistic experts say that their dialect is very similar to those who settled there in the 1700s and is very close to a Cornwall accent.