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Roughly bounded by the Lafayette River, Knitting Mill Creek, East Haven Creek, and 38th St. 36°53′05″N 76°17′20″W / 36.884722°N 76.288889°W / 36.884722; -76.288889 ( Colonial
The West Freemason Street Area Historic District is a national historic district located at Norfolk, Virginia. It encompasses 48 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section on the western edge of the center city of Norfolk.
In response to the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Covenanter troops were sent to Ireland, and the 1643 Solemn League and Covenant brought them into the First English Civil War on the side of Parliament. As the Wars of the Three Kingdoms progressed, many Covenanters came to view English religious Independents like Oliver Cromwell as a greater threat ...
The history of Norfolk, Virginia as a modern settlement begins in 1636. The city was named after the English county of Norfolk [1] [2] and was formally incorporated in 1736. . The city was burned by orders of the outgoing Virginia governor Lord Dunmore in 1776 during the second year of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), although it was soon rebu
1682 - Norfolk Town founded. [1]1728 - Norfolk Academy chartered. 1736 - Town of Norfolk attains borough status. [2] [1]1739 - Saint Paul's Episcopal Church built. [1]1760 (approximately) - Poplar Hall, a historic plantation house, is built.
Lower Norfolk County is a long-extinct county which was organized in colonial Virginia, operating from 1637 until 1691. New Norfolk County was formed in 1636 from Elizabeth City Shire , one of the eight original shires (or counties ) formed in 1634 in the colony of Virginia by direction of the King of England.
The 32-room White Cliffs estate was bought by the town of Northborough, about 45 miles west of Boston, in 2017, ... It was built at 167 Main St. by Daniel Wesson, co-founder of Smith & Wesson ...
The Committee of Both Kingdoms (known as the Derby House Committee from late 1647) was a committee set up during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms by the Parliamentarian faction in association with representatives from the Scottish Covenanters, after they made an alliance (the Solemn League and Covenant) in late 1643.