Norge, Virginia

Norge is an unincorporated community in James City County, Virginia, United States.

The new community of Norge was formally established beginning in 1904 in western James City County by Norwegian Americans and other Scandinavians, with persons resettling from other places in North America joined by new immigrants.

[1] For some years, prospective new residents were introduced to the area through promotional material sent out by Carl Martin Bergh, a fellow Norwegian American with farming experience who had become a land agent for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O).

The Peninsula Extension of the railroad had been built through the area in 1881 to reach from the mountains of West Virginia to the coal piers on Hampton Roads at the new city of Newport News in adjacent Warwick County.

The Norge Depot offered a convenient point for shipping farm produce to places such as Richmond.

They wanted a centrally located place to be used for dances, meetings and parties as their parents had known in Norway.

The farm home of Carl Bergh, built around 1904, is located at the end of Farmville Lane in Norge.