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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N0_flood-protection-for-downtown-norfolk_Norfolk-VA.html
Tidal flooding from hurricanes and northeasters has always been a part of Norfolk's relationship with the sea. In 1693, the Royal Society of London reported that "there happened a most violent storm in Virginia, which stopped the course of ancient…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MZ_epworth-united-methodist-church-1894_Norfolk-VA.html
This 1894 Richardsonian Romanesque granite and sandstone church was designed by Norfolk architects James E. R. Carpenter and John V. Peebles. It was built to accommodate the growing congregation of the 1850 Granby Street Methodist Church at the no…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MY_st-pauls-church-1739_Norfolk-VA.html
In 1641 a "chapel of ease" was built here where St. Paul's Church is now. The 1680 survey of the new town designated this site for a church and burying ground. Many of the founders of Norfolk are buried here. When Norfolk became a borough by royal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MX_tripoli-street_Norfolk-VA.html
Monticello Avenue, South of Market Street, was formerly Tripoli Street. It was named in honour of Commodore Stephen Decatur's victory over the Barbary Pirates, after he had requested that his own name should not be used.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MV_northern-limit-of-old-norfolk_Norfolk-VA.html
This marks the Northern limit of the fifty acres constituting the original town of Norfolk. It was bounded on the North by Town Back Creek and Dun-In-The-Mire Creek. The land was purchased as a port for lower Norfolk county for "tenn thousand poun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LV_st-johns-african-methodist-episcopal-church_Norfolk-VA.html
St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church has been registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark pursuant to the authority vested in the Virginia Historic Landmarks Board Act 1966. This property has been entered in the national Register of Histor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LT_first-baptist-church_Norfolk-VA.html
First Baptist Church Norfolk Virginia has been registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark pursuant to the authority vested in the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission act of 1966. This property has been placed on the National Register of Histori…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LQ_hospital-of-st-vincent-depaul_Norfolk-VA.html
Founded in 1855, the Hospital of St. Vincent dePaul was Norfolk's first civilian hospital. Located two blocks south at the corner of Church and Wood strees, the hospital was opened in the home of Ann Plume Behan Herron by eight Daughters of Charit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LP_bank-street-baptist-church_Norfolk-VA.html
The Bank Street Baptist Church was built on this site in 1802 as a Presbyterian church. In 1840 it was purchased by a group of free blacks to serve them as a Baptist church. Because it had one of the first church bells in Norfolk, the building was…