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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CEN_dunluce-castle_Norfolk-VA.html
Side AWelcome to Dunluce CastleDunluce Castle, dramatically positioned on this sheer headland between the Giant's Causeway and Portrush, was built between the 15th and 17th centuries. At this time it was one of the finest castles in the region and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CEM_naval-air-station-norfolk_Norfolk-VA.html
Naval Air Station Norfolk was commissioned August 8, 1918 and is the birthplace of naval aviation. NAS Norfolk initially provided support for operational and experimental flights but quickly grew into a major sea plane base.
World War II brough…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BYO_navy-mess-attendant-school_Norfolk-VA.html
From 1933 to 1942, Navy recruits of African descent attended this school, located in barracks at Unit "K-West" and later at "B-East." Advancement opportunities for these sailors and counterparts of Asian-Pacific Island heritage were then limited t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18KF_uss-kearsarge-cv-33_Norfolk-VA.html
USS Kearsarge, scheduled to depart for the Mediterranean Sea on June 1, 1948, was anchored off Naval Station, Norfolk in anticipation of an early morning departure.
Sailors and Marines returning to the ship the night of May 31 encountered heavy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM185P_willoughby-baylor-house-1794_Norfolk-VA.html
This site was in the original Crown grant of 200 acres to Colonel Thomas Willoughby in 1636. Located on Freemason Street, so called because the Norfolk Royal Exchange Lodge of Masons erected the "Mason's Hall" on this site in 1764 as America's fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1054_the-norfolk-17_Norfolk-VA.html
Four years after the May 1954 U. S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation of public school students based on race was unconstitutional, the Commonwealth of Virginia continued to resist compliance. A fierce legal batt…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYRW_uss-cole-ddg-67_Norfolk-VA.html
[Rendering of the guided missile destroyer USS COLE]
At 1118 on the morning of October 12, 2000, as USS COLE (DDG 67) was refueling in Aden Harbor, Yemen, suicide bombers detonated an explosive-laden boat directly against the port side of the s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWPH_uss-nimitz-cvn-68_Norfolk-VA.html
On the night of May 25, 1981, while operating off the Florida coast, a twin engine EA-6B jet aircraft crashed into the flight deck of USS Nimitz CVN-68, killing 14 crewmembers and injuring 45 others. Nimitz pulled into port, had its catapults repa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWKX_uss-iowa-bb-61_Norfolk-VA.html
On the morning of April 19, 1989, USS Iowa (BB-61) was underway north of Puerto Rico conducting routine training exercises when the #2 16" gun turret exploded, killing 47 men working within its steel-encased bulkheads.
"They were just men with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWKW_the-pentagon_Norfolk-VA.html
About 9:30 a.m., September 11, 2001, a hijacked commercial airliner was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia killing 35 active duty, retired and reserve naval personnel, along with other military personnel and innocent civ…