The first in what became the United States, the facilities were destroyed and most of the colonists there killed during the Indian massacre of 1622 on Good Friday, March 22, 1622.
During the American Revolutionary War, Warwick's craftsmen turned out clothing and shoes, and its mills ground flour and meal for the Continental troops stationed at Chesterfield Courthouse.
[1] On April 30, 1781, General Benedict Arnold's British troops burned the town, destroying ships, warehouses, mills, tannery storehouses, and ropewalks.
The town of Warwick no longer exists, but its place in history is noted on a Virginia Historical Marker nearby.
Portions of the original Warwick Road extended from the port town of Warwick through Colonel Archibald Cary's Ampthill Plantation (which is now part of the large DuPont Plant), annexed areas of Chesterfield which are now part of South Richmond, and back into Chesterfield County to reach the Bon Air area.