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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNV_fertile-hunting-grounds-for-the-indians_Hampton-VA.html
Long before citizens of Hampton ever called Olde Wythe home, this area was used by the Kecoughtan Indians for hunting, fishing, and growing crops. The Kecoughtans were part of a loose confederation of the Algonquin whose chieftain was Powhatan. Th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNO_hampton-baptist-church_Hampton-VA.html
In 1791 Grafton Baptist Church, in York County, founded a mission in Hampton, Hampton Baptist Church, which called its first pastor, Richard Hurst, in 1806. After the War of 1812, the church began to grow so that it had 185 members by 1837. During…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNN_mcdowells-inn_Hampton-VA.html
On this site in 1726 John McDowell, who appraised estates and witnessed wills in Elizabeth City County, owned and operated an inn. It was bought by Dr. John Brodie in 1765. British Marine Captain Brown was treated here and died from wounds receive…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNL_the-magnolia-tree-inn_Hampton-VA.html
On this site prior to 1884 James Sands Darling built his Victorian home which survived the destructive fire of that year. The home was occupied by his daughter, Grace Darling Cumming, and her family until 1923. It later became the Magnolia Tree In…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNJ_the-sclater-building_Hampton-VA.html
The oldest surviving commercial structure in Old Hampton was built by William S. Sclater following the War Between the States. The lot is part of an original one-half acre on which, by the 1750's, was a large brick house belonging to a Captain Ale…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNI_the-northeast-corner_Hampton-VA.html
On this corner in the 1750's was a large brick house owned by Captain Alexander Hamilton. John Paul, who owned and ran an ordinary during the Revolutionary War, sold the fifteen corner feet of the one-half acre lot to Thomas Latimer, Jr. It was bo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMN6_first-church-at-kecoughtan_Hampton-VA.html
Near here on the church creek stood the first church at Kecoughtan (later Hampton). Built on the Parish Glebe Farm about 1616, as the first church of the oldest continuous settlement of English origin in America, William Mease was the first known …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMN4_little-england-chapel_Hampton-VA.html
Little England Chapel, originally known as the Ocean Cottage Sunday School, was built about 1879 on property provided by Daniel F. Cock. Hampton Institute students regularly offered Sunday school lessons here to the African American Newtown commun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMN3_little-england_Hampton-VA.html
In 1634, Capps Point, later known as Little England, was patented by William Capps, a prominent planter who maintained a lucrative saltworks. He served as a burgess in the 1619 General Assembly, the first representative legislative body in the New…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMN2_third-church-at-kecoughtan_Hampton-VA.html
You are standing within the foundations of the third church at Kecoughtan (present-day Hampton). The first church (1616-1624) was located 1.5 miles south of here and the second one was constructed across the Hampton River about two miles east. It …