Tidewater is a name used to refer to an area in Virginia, in the region around Hampton Roads, Newport News, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach: see Tidewater region of Virginia.
The term is also sometimes applied to the entire South Atlantic coastal region generally, and occasionally extended to include all coastal areas of the Southern States (including those with coasts on the Gulf of Mexico); when used in the former sense, it is contrasted with the Piedmont and/or Appalachia, and when used in the latter sense it is contrasted with the "Inland" or "Highland" South, or, as it is sometimes referred to, the "upcountry."
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tidewater, in U.S. history, that part of the Atlantic coastal plain between the shoreline and the farthest upstream points in rivers reached by oceanic tides.
The tidewater, with its good harbors readily accessible to the ocean, was settled first by European colonists.
Later the Southern tidewater became one of the many regions of large plantations as well as an area of important commercial towns.
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