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Location of Newport News in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport News, Virginia. 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 Newport News, Virginia, United States. The locations of National ...
Newport News Middle Ground Light; Newport News Public Library; Newport News station; Newport News Transportation Center; Newport News Victory Arch; Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport; Noland Company Building; North End Historic District (Newport News, Virginia)
It encompasses 451 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Newport News. It is a compact, middle-class and upper middle-class residential neighborhood that arose during the period 1900–1935 in association with the nearby Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company.
The buildings housed county offices until 1958, when Warwick County, Virginia was combined with the City of Newport News. [4] On the property was a Confederate monument for the Warwick Beauregards, dedicated in May 1909. In August 2020, the City of Newport News voted to remove the monument, and it was removed shortly thereafter. [5] [6] [7]
The area of Newport News became part of Warwick River Shire, which became Warwick County in 1637. By 1810, the county seat was at Denbigh. For a short time in the late 19th century, the county seat was moved to Newport News. Early Warwick County and Elizabeth City consisted of farms and plantations granted to landholders and settlers.
1886 – Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Company (later Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.) in business. [4] 1888 – Warwick County, Virginia seat moves temporarily to Newport News from Denbigh. 1889 Newport News Light & Water Company in business. [1] YMCA branch organized. [5] 1890 Citizens Railway (Hampton-Newport News) begins ...
Camp Patrick Henry is a decommissioned United States Army base which was located in Warwick County, Virginia.After World War II, the site was redeveloped as a commercial airport, and became part of City of Newport News in 1958 when the former City of Warwick and Newport News were politically consolidated as a single independent city.
Aaron Brooks – American football player (born 1976); Earl Faison – American football player (1939–2016), attended Huntington High School [1]; Ella Fitzgerald – American jazz singer (1917–1996) [2]