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Chesapeake is the only locality in the Hampton Roads area with a separate bridge division. The city's Department of Public Works, Bridges and Structures division has 51 full-time workers. The city maintains 90 bridges and overpasses. Included are five movable span (draw) bridges which open an estimated 30,000 times a year for water vessels. [31]
When South Norfolk merged with Norfolk County to form the city of Chesapeake in 1963, Smith High became part of the new city. The school opened in 1954 and was named after Oscar Frommel Smith (25 October 1891 – 4 May 1950), a Hampton Roads fertilizer magnate and civic leader, who had recently died [ 3 ] and whose widow, Ruth, offered the ...
St. Brides Correctional Center is a state prison occupying 180 acres (0.73 km 2) in the city of Chesapeake, Virginia, first opened in 1973 and re-built in 2007.. The facility is a medium-security prison for men, owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections.
The group consists of members of the Grassfield Fine Arts Department, and is focused on performing popular and rock tunes for audiences. In the 2022-2023 school year, the Grassfield Philharmonic Orchestra was established, under the direction of Keith Dublin, the Band Director, and Steven Vutsinas, the Orchestra Director.
The city of Portsmouth is on the left and Norfolk is on the right. USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) is heading downriver. View is to the north. The Elizabeth River is a 6-mile-long (10 km) [1] tidal estuary forming an arm of Hampton Roads harbor at the southern end of Chesapeake Bay in southeast Virginia in the United States.
For most of the time from the end of the Civil War to 1993, the 3rd district was a relatively compact district centered on Richmond. The district's current configuration dates to the 1992 election, when the Justice Department ordered Virginia to create a majority-minority district. At that time, portions of the old 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th ...
Chesapeake (train, 1994–1995), an Amtrak service between New York City and Richmond, Virginia Chesapeake and Ohio Railway , a former American railroad, operating from 1869 to 1972 in the state of Virginia