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The Daily Press published its first edition on January 4, 1896, just 12 days before the General Assembly declared Newport News a city on January 16, 1896. Charles E. Thacker owned and edited the paper from a small printing shop in the basement of the First National Bank at 28th Street and Washington Avenue.
Norfolk: 1900 Weekly News & Advance [5] Lynchburg: 1986 Daily Lee Enterprises: News-Gazette [5] Lexington 1801 [9] Weekly The News-Gazette Corp. Began as the Rockbridge Repository 1801: News Leader: Staunton: 1904 Daily Gannett Company [10] News Progress: Mecklenburg County: 1884 Weekly Womack Publishing Co. Inc. [2] News Virginian: Waynesboro ...
Beginning circa 1937, the headquarters were in Norfolk. [20] In 2020, the newspaper moved, [21] as Monument Companies bought the Norfolk complex for $9,500,000. [22] This complex became Pilot Place, an apartment complex. [23] The new headquarters in Newport News was already the offices of the Daily Press, which was the lessee. [20]
Original First Baptist Church (Newport News, Virginia) built. [7] Population: 4,449. 1891 Courthouse built. [7] First National Bank established. [7] 1894 – Adath Jeshurun synagogue built. [8] 1896 January 16: City of Newport News incorporated, independent of Warwick County, Virginia. [9] [1] Daily Press newspaper begins publication. [10] Fire ...
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In 1958, the citizenry of the cities of Warwick and Newport News voted by referendum to consolidate the two cities, choosing to assume the better-known name of Newport News, and forming the third largest city population-wise in Virginia with a 65 square miles (168 km 2) area. The boundaries of the city of Newport News today are essentially the ...
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William Douglas Gordon (April 27, 1876 – May 4, 1944) was an American newspaper editor, critic, and attorney. [1] [2] He was editor of The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch in Virginia for 22 years. [3]