The setting for this nostalgic moment references the time just prior to the 1898 establishment of Bay Shore Beach, a historically Black Beach that was adjacent to Buckroe Beach in Hampton, Virginia. The beach had its height of popularity from the Nadir era until the desegregation era. Kecoughtan (in the title of the painting) was the name given to the area by the Algonquin speaking indigenous people (such as Pocahontas) that the English settlers encountered when they settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.