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VBPL has 11 locations including a joint-use library with a community college, a law library, and a bookmobile for early literacy outreach. The different library buildings range in size from the large 90,000-square-foot (8,400 m 2) Central Library on busy Virginia Beach Boulevard to the much smaller Pungo-Blackwater Library attached to Creeds Elementary School on Princess Anne Road.
VIRGINIA BEACH — If you go the Princess Anne Library on Nimmo Parkway this summer, you’ll likely notice something unusual next to the circulation desk. A row of 7-foot-tall surfboards stand ...
Princess Anne is a community located in the independent city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States at the junction of Princess Anne Road and North Landing Road near the West Neck River. The community, which dates from 1691, was named after Princess Anne of Denmark and Norway (later Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665–1714).
Princess Anne County (1691–1963), now defunct, with Virginia Beach from 1895 Virginia map In 1607, after a voyage of 144 days, three ships headed by Captain Christopher Newport , and carrying 105 men and boys, made their first landfall in the New World on the mainland, where the southern mouth of the Chesapeake Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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.
1148 E. Princess Anne Rd. ... Virginia Beach Boulevard, Smith's Creek, and Brambleton Ave. ... Today this is part of the Slover branch of the Norfolk Public Library ...
In 1963, when the "new" city of Virginia Beach was created from the merger of the small oceanfront resort city of Virginia Beach and Princess Anne County, Kempsville became one of seven boroughs of the new city. The other six were Bayside, Blackwater, Lynnhaven, Princess Anne, Pungo, and Virginia Beach (oceanfront).
Adam Thoroughgood [Thorowgood] (1604–1640) was a colonist and community leader in the Virginia Colony who helped settle the Virginia counties of Elizabeth City, Lower Norfolk and Princess Anne, the latter, known today as the independent city of Virginia Beach.