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A station named for Col. J. S. Morrison, Construction Engineer of the Peninsula Division, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, was built in the Warwick County Hamlet of Gum Grove on completion of the line between Richmond and Newport News on Oct. 16, 1881. …
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Educator, politician, and Civil Rights pioneer, Jessie Menifield Rattley (1929-2001) was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from Hampton University in 1951. Rattley founded the Peninsula Business College here in 1952. She was the first bla…
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Two African American Civil War veterans, Pvt. Edward Diggs and Sgt. Anthony W. Poole, are buried here. Each enlisted in Co. G, 36th U.S. Colored Troops, in Yorktown. Blacks sought to enlist earlier in the war but were banned until after the Emanci…
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Born as Oak Grove Baptist Church under the pastoral leadership of the Rev. John Corbin in 1882, First Baptist Church Morrison moved to this site in 1933 and for over seven decades served faithful members of this community and offered a sacred plac…
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Denbigh Parish was established about 1635 and took its name from the nearby Denbigh plantation. During colonial times, the Anglican parish administered ecclesiastical and some civil affairs for the upper portion of Elizabeth City Corporation, late…
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This traditional farmhouse was probably built for William Harwood around 1769. His great grandson, Dr. Humphrey Harwood Curtis, acquired the plantation in 1858. In May 1861, Dr. Curtis organized the Warwick Beauregards (Company H, 32d Virginia Vol…
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In this section of the James River directly in front of you lies the remains of the USS Cumberland. At this location and along the shore to your left were the Union batteries that protected Camp Butler.
On March 8, 1862, the Confederate ironcla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRMO_camp-alexander_Newport-News-VA.html
Camp Alexander was created from a portion of Camp Hill between Warwick and Jefferson Avenues on Aug. 15, 1918. Part of the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, it quartered Black stevedore regiments and labor battalions. Named for 2nd Lt. John Hawks…
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First service was held in a one room school house, one mile and half north of this site, Nov. 2, 1879The school house was renovated and dedicated Aug. 6, 1882 and named Olivet.The first new building, one half mile north of this site, was dedicated…
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"We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against the enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds."Fleet Admiral C.W. Nimitz, USN
In memory of the crews of the 52 United States submarines lost in World…