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The following are approximate tallies of current listings in the United States Virgin Islands on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Virginia is located in the independent city of Virginia Beach. Established in 1938 in an isolated portion of the former Princess Anne County, it is managed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The administrative office is located on Sandbridge Road at Sigma between Lago Mar and Sandbridge Beach.
Luray Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Luray, Page County, Virginia. The district includes 75 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, and 3 contributing objects in the central business district of the town of Luray. They include residential, commercial, governmental, and institutional buildings in ...
Dorie Miller Galley, the main galley for Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti [60] Doris Miller Dining Hall, Naval Air Station Chase Field, Beeville, Texas [61] Doris Miller Park, a housing community for military personnel in Honolulu [62] USS Doris Miller (CVN-81), a future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, announced on January 19, 2020.
Gwyn claimed to discover Gwynn's Island in c. 1611. [6] According to legend, Gwynn saved Pocahontas from a sinking canoe near the island. [7] At a January 1624 muster, Hugh Wing was listed as aged 30 years. [2] In 1635, Gwyn petitioned King Charles I for ownership of the island and in 1640 was given 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2). [8]
The Hornbook includes an 80-page narrative overview of the history of Virginia, a listing of extinct counties and the history of Virginia's current cities and counties (along with historical population figures), listings of Virginia's officeholders from 1607 to the present, descriptions of famous landmarks and institutions in the state (including state parks, colleges and universities ...
1906 - Town of Virginia Beach incorporated. [1] 1933 - Bayne Theatre opens (approximate date). [4] 1935 - Cape Henry Memorial erected. 1941 - The Virginia Beach and Princess Anne Chapters of the NAACP were formed. [5] 1952 - City of Virginia Beach incorporated. 1953 - August: Hurricane Barbara. 1960 - Population: 84,215.
Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, is the first neo-Palladian villa mid-Georgian plantation house built in the United States. It was constructed in 1764 for Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, upon the burning of his family's older house.