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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMOL_warwick-hotel-1883-1961_Newport-News-VA.html
Erected by the Old Dominion Land Co. as the city's largest residential structure and opened April 11, 1883, the Hotel Warwick fronting on West Ave. and 24th St. long served as the ?Hub' of city activities. It housed the county seat of government, …
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1917 VICTORY 1918
Greetings with love to those who returnA triumph with tears to those who sleep
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"Greetings with love to those who returnA triumph with tears to those who sleep"
Newport News' Victory Arch provides a continuing memorial to American servicemen and women. Grateful Peninsula citizens built a temporary Arch, dedicated April 13,…
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The splendid natural harbor of Hampton Roads served the nation as a military port of embarkation in the Spanish American War and two World Wars. In World War 1, headquarters were set up at Newport News on July 11, 1917, and vast shipments of troop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMOF_curtiss-flying-school_Newport-News-VA.html
Aviation pioneer Glenn H. Curtiss sponsored the Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station on a 20-acre tract east of Newport News Boat Harbor in the fall of 1915 with Capt. Thomas Scott Baldwin as head. Many civilian students, including Canadians, later…
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In World War 1, Camp Stuart, named for Confederate General 'JEB' Stuart (1833-1864), was America's largest troop handing facility. It was run by Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation July 1917 to Sept. 1919 on 300 acres leased from the Old Dominion La…
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Born October 22, 1821, Harwinton, ConnecticutDied August 13, 1900, "Pine Knot Camp." New York————— · —————Sculpted and presentedbyAnna Hyatt HuntingtonDedicated October 22, 1966
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"A soldier of the Union mustered out,"is the inscription on an unknown graveat Newport News, beside the salt-sea wave,nameless and dateless; sentinel or scoutshot down in skirmish, or disastrous routof battle when the loud artillery draveits iron …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAT5_newport-news_Newport-News-VA.html
This area was blessed with abundant springs famous to mariners for centuries after the great sea captain Christopher Newport visited here enroute to Jamestown in May 1607 in command of the first permanent English settlers of the New World. Thus be…
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"The value of the aeroplane for the Navy is unquestioned." - Eugene B. Ely
Naval aviation dates from November 14, 1910, when stunt pilot Eugene B. Ely coaxed a Curtiss "Pusher" biplane from the deck of the cruiser "Birmingham" in these waters, …