West Point (formerly Delaware) is an incorporated town in King William County, Virginia, United States.

During the first half of the 17th century, the Confederacy and the English colonists who established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown in 1607 were frequently in conflict.

More than 350 years later, Pamunkey and Mattaponi tribal members continue to occupy the reservations, located a few miles north of modern-day West Point.

In 1691, the Virginia General Assembly directed that West Point be chartered as a port of entry on the York.

In 1705 the House of Burgesses authorized the town to qualify as a "free borough", and renamed it "Delaware" in honor of former Royal Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr.

When the Richmond and York River Railroad was built and completed in 1861 to the port community, just before the onset of the American Civil War, the city took back its former name of "West Point".

The railroad was a key strategic goal of Union General George B. McClellan's failed Peninsula Campaign in 1862 to capture Richmond.

After the decline of both shipping and tourism, a shipyard built in 1917 and a 1914 pulp paper mill are credited with bringing new jobs to the town.

(The other town with an independent school division is Colonial Beach, located in Westmoreland County in the Northern Neck region.)

West Point also sends students to Maggie L. Walker Governor's School for Government and International Studies.

[10] According to the Crab Carnival official website, it is a time for the community to celebrate the Town's history and keep a tradition continuing.