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Broad Bay Manor in Virginia Beach is a historic manor house which is purportedly the oldest extant European-built house in the southeastern United States. Thomas Allen built the small center portion of the current larger house in circa 1640 [ 1 ] of Flemish bond brick on land granted to him by Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr or his ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Dodona Manor, c. 1805, Loudoun County – home of General George C. Marshall; Evergreen, c. 1800, Prince George County - birthplace of Edmund Ruffin; Frascati, 1821, Orange County, - home of U.S. Supreme Court justice Philip P. Barbour; Ferry Plantation House c. 1830, Virginia Beach — Civil War Home of USN/CSN Cmdr. Charles Fleming McIntosh
Mass house building in the west of Sedgley during the 1950s and 1960s made it necessary for new primary schools to be built to accommodate Sedgley's rapidly growing population – Cotwall End infant and junior schools were opened in 1962 and on the nearby Northway Estate, Alder Coppice Infant and Junior Schools were opened in 1967, just after ...
It is situated 1¼ miles to the south-east of the city centre and centred on the A4039 and A4126 roads. [2] It is situated on the western edge of the former Borough of Bilston and began as an expansion of the Sedgley village of Ettingshall in the Victorian era, becoming part of the new Coseley Urban District Council in 1897.
The site of Baggeridge Colliery, adjacent to Gospel End Village and more than a mile west of Sedgley village centre, was significant since it was just outside the geological boundary that delineated the South Staffordshire Coalfield. This boundary is known as the Western Boundary Fault of the South Staffordshire Coalfield.
The rollback was already factored into this year’s budget, and the millage rate went down from 53.9 for the 2023 budget to 51.7 for the 2024 budget.
A group of wealthy residents sought to expand the park to include the Sedgeley property, and they organized a fund to help achieve that. Though, the fund was short of the $70,000 needed, so through use of eminent domain, the city of Philadelphia paid the $45,000 balance and acquired the Sedgeley property in 1857. [13]