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Representative of mid to late 1800s middle class architecture [4] 152 Valley St., N.E. 1890s Vernacular: Representative of late to mid 1800s middle class architecture [4] 315 Valley St., N.E. 1890s Vernacular: Representative of late to mid 1800s middle class architecture [4] 337 Valley St., N.E. 1890s Modified Queen Anne: 164 Valley St., N.W. 1890s
In 1584, Sir Walter Raleigh sent Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the coast of present-day North Carolina, and they returned with word of a regional native chief named "Wingina." This name was given to the territory, and was shortly renamed "Virginia" by Queen Elizabeth I, perhaps in part due to her status as the "Virgin Queen."
From 1,800 persons in 1782, the total population of free blacks in Virginia increased to 12,766 (4.3 percent of blacks) in 1790, and to 30,570 in 1810; the percentage change was from free blacks' comprising less than one percent of the total black population in Virginia, to 7.2 percent by 1810, even as the overall population increased. [105]
Southern Blacks wanted public schools for their children but they did not demand racially integrated schools. Almost all the new public schools were segregated, apart from a few in New Orleans. After the Republicans lost power in the mid-1870s, conservative whites retained the public school systems but sharply cut their funding. [128]
Lying along the center-line of the Virginia Peninsula, the area that became Williamsburg was some distance from both the James River and the York River, and the ground's elevation gradually decreased as it approached the shore of each. Near Williamsburg, College Creek and Queen's Creek fed into one of the two rivers. By anchoring each end on ...
The end result was a new municipality encompassing a total of 430 square miles (1,100 km 2), making it the largest city in land area in Virginia [3] and the 16th largest in the country. [citation needed] Suffolk celebrated its 400th anniversary in 2008. It is (as of 2008), the fastest-growing city in Virginia. [3]
In 1619, the area of Newport News was included in one of four huge corporations of the Virginia Company of London, and became known as Elizabeth Cittie, which extended west all the way to Skiffe's Creek (currently the border between Newport News and James City County. Elizabeth Cittie also included all of present-day South Hampton Roads.