Harborton is a small community located in Accomack County on Virginia's Eastern Shore and boarders along the Pungoteague Creek and Taylor Creek less than a mile from the World-Famous Chesapeake Bay.  The town itself was established in 1880 but there are records of activity on Pungoteague Creek as early as 1667.  Harborton today may be a quite small close-knit community, but it wasn't always that way Harborton was once one of the Eastern Shore's largest industrial towns alongside Onanacock and Cape Charles the Eastern Shore's three largest steamboat ports.  Harborton was once a home to two churches a High School, Menhaden Fish Factory, multiple general store's and one of the largest Steamboat Ports owned and operated by the Eastern Shore steamboat Co. The town also had multiple visits from the Famous James Adams Floating Theater in the late 1800's through early 1900's.   The Pungoteague Creek also played a part in the war of 1812 when a conflict between the British Navy stationed, on Tangier Island at the time and local militia fought with rounds of fire being exchanged.  Later 1n 1863 Pungoteague Creek also played a role during the Civil War when it was believed that supplies when being snuck in through a blockade to deliver supplies to Saint Georges Church in Pungoteague which served a base for the Union Army.