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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GE6_nansemond-collegiate-institute_Suffolk-VA.html
Here stood the Nansemond Collegiate Institute, founded in 1890 as the Nansemond Industrial Institute by Rev. William W. Gaines to provide local black children with an education, because free public schools were closed to them. Eventually the insti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GE5_east-suffolk-school-complex_Suffolk-VA.html
Between 1926 and 1927, African Americans raised $3,300 toward the East Suffolk School, which opened with T.J. Johnson as principal. In addition to public money, the Julius Rosenwald Fund also provided $1,500 to assist the effort. Rosenwald, presid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GE3_first-suffolk-church_Suffolk-VA.html
Here stood the Colonial Suffolk Church, a large, cross-shaped, brick building, erected in 1753 as the second parish church of Upper Parish, Nansemond County, and the first house of worship in the town of Suffolk. It survived the burning of Suffolk…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GE2_early-history-of-suffolk_Suffolk-VA.html
A community developed here in the 1720s around John Constant's wharf, dwelling, and tobacco warehouse. The Virginia House of Burgesses chartered the town of Suffolk in 1742. It was incorporated as a town in 1808 and as a city in 1910; in 1974 it m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GDC_isle-of-wight-county-nansemond-county_Suffolk-VA.html
Isle of Wight County
Area 314 Square Miles
One of the original Shires formed in 1634. Its name was at first Warrascoyack, changed in 1637 to Isle of Wight. Of the oldest churches in the United States is in this county.
Nansemond County
Area 423…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRIK_revolutionary-camp_Suffolk-VA.html
On 10 May 1779, during the Revolutionary War, a British expeditionary force commanded by Gen. Edward Matthews disembarked in Portsmouth to capture the major Tidewater Virginia towns. About 200 Nansemond County militia under Col. Willis Riddick imm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRIJ_great-dismal-swamp_Suffolk-VA.html
William Byrd II visited the swamp, just to the south, in 1728 while he was surveying the boundary line between Virginia and North Carolina. Byrd, and later George Washington, advocated construction of a canal through the swamp. Washington and his …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBWI_civil-war-cavalry-skirmish_Suffolk-VA.html
Federal forces occupied Suffolk on 12 May 1862 and built earthworks around the town; Brig. Gen. John J. Peck took command in October. Cavalry vedettes, or mounted pickets, were posted some distance outside the fortifications to warn of Confederate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBWH_siege-of-suffolk_Suffolk-VA.html
Across the road here ran the main line of Confederate works, built by Longstreet besieging Suffolk, April, 1863. He abandoned the siege and rejoined Lee at Fredericksburg.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMBWF_siege-of-suffolk_Suffolk-VA.html
The town was occupied by Union Troops from May, 1862, until the end of the Civil War. Confederate forces under Longstreet unsuccessfully besieged Suffolk, from April 11, to May 3, 1863, when they withdrew across the James on Lee's orders.