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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.
Many historic houses in Virginia are notable sites. The U.S. state of Virginia was home to many of America's Founding Fathers, four of the first five U.S. presidents, as well as many important figures of the Confederacy. As one of the earliest locations of European settlement in America, Virginia has some of the oldest buildings in the nation.
It was historically part of the ancient manor of Sedgley, becoming part of the Sedgley urban district in 1894, remaining part of this authority until 1966, when it became part of the Seisdon Rural District in 1966, despite the bulk of Sedgley being absorbed into Dudley County Borough. This in turn was replaced by the South Staffordshire ...
Date of construction is derived from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Foster's Castle: Tunstall, Virginia: 1685–1690 Building east of main house at Elsing Green: Tunstall, Virginia: 1690 Pinewoods (Lightfoot, Virginia) Lightfoot, Virginia: ca. 1690s Criss Cross: New Kent, Virginia: 1690 Restored in 1953, similar to Foster's ...
Cadastral surveying is the sub-field of cadastre and surveying that specialises in the establishment and re-establishment of real property boundaries. It involves the physical delineation of property boundaries and determination of dimensions, areas and certain rights associated with properties.
For the first time in five years, property taxes will be based on an updated assessment to be mailed out in the first two weeks of September. Additionally, the millage rate will be lowered by 4% ...
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 ...