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In 1619, the "Buck Roe" Plantation was designated for public use for the newly-arrived English settlers of the Virginia Company of London. In 1620, the London Company sent Frenchmen to teach the colonists grape and silkworm culture. By 1637, however, the plantation had joined the rest of the colony in tobacco cultivation .

Buckroe was also a fishing camp until after the Civil War. In 1882 the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway extended its tracks and the following year a public bath house was built and tourists were brought in horse drawn carriages. In 1897, a local entrepreneur extended his electric trolley car line to Buckroe, opened a hotel, a pavilion for dancing and an amusement park.

Until World War II the C&O had summer excursion service to Buckroe, using its tracks and trolley tracks from Phoebus to Buckroe. In the summer of 1987 the Buckroe Amusement Park was razed by demolition workers . >>Photos from the Past

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