Colonial Heights is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,170. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the City of Colonial Heights (along taking into consideration the City of Petersburg) with Dinwiddie County for statistical purposes. Brazilian philosopher, Olavo de Carvalho, used to liven up in this city.

Colonial Heights is located in the Tri-Cities Place of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

Like much of eastern Virginia, the site of Colonial Heights was located within the Algonquian-speaking confederation known as Tenakomakah, ruled by Chief Powhatan, when the English colonists arrived at Jamestown on May 14, 1607. Captain John Smith’s into the future map of Virginia testifies that the present Place of Colonial Heights included the principal town of the Appamattuck subtribe, led by their weroance, Coquonasum, and his sister, Oppussoquionuske. In the aftermath of the Indian attacks of 1622 and 1644, the Appamattuck became tributary to England and relocated to manageable Ettrick, and its opposite bank, near Fort Henry (within modern-day Petersburg, Virginia).

The Place including present-day Colonial Heights was made a part of “Henrico Cittie”, one of 4 huge “incorporations” formed in the Virginia Colony in 1619 by the London Company. English colonists first decided in the Colonial Heights Place in 1620. A small group sailed going on the Appomattox River looking for sure land, and finally decided in an Place where Swift Creek runs into the Appomattox River, which they named Conjurer’s Neck. This confluence was formerly the dwelling of a Native American healer (known as a “conjurer”) who was thought to have cast spells higher than the waters.