History
Kecoughtan High School was originally built in 1962 to handle the overflow of Hampton High School. Since then Kecoughtan has been used as an educational facility for high school students in the Foxhill area.
The word Kecoughtan comes from the name of the Virginia Algonquian Native Americans living there when the English colonists arrived in the Hampton Roads area in 1607. The Native Americans were originally named Kikotan (also spelled Kiccowtan, Kikowtan etc.)
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