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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWIL_james-w-hunter-house-1894_Norfolk-VA.html
James Wilson Hunter (1850-1931) was a prominent Norfolk merchant, banker and civic leader. In 1894 he commissioned Boston architect W.P. Wentworth to design and build this impressive town home for his family on West Freemason Street. The design re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWIK_freemason-street-baptist-church_Norfolk-VA.html
In May 1848 former members of the Cumberland Street Baptist Church organized to become the Freemason Street Baptist Church. A new church building was begun that year and completed and dedicated in May 1850. The Reverend Tiberius Gracchus Jones, a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWII_taylor-whittle-house-1791_Norfolk-VA.html
This Federal style house is one of the oldest remaining buildings on Freemason Street, a fashionable address in the expanding Borough of Norfolk at the turn of the nineteenth century. It stands on property confiscated from the estate of Loyalist T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWIF_main-street_Norfolk-VA.html
In his 1680 survey of the site that was to become the Town of Norfolk, Lower Norfolk County surveyor John Ferebee laid out the principal street along a ridge of high land extending from Foure Farthing Pointe (Town Point Park) to Dun-in-the-Mire (H…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWIB_margaret-douglass_Norfolk-VA.html
"I told the judge to do his duty and put me in prison at once, if he chose, for I would ask no favors at the hands of any man."Margaret Douglass Margaret Douglass, a white woman from Charleston, South Carolina, moved to Norfolk with her daughte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWIA_monticello-hotel-1898_Norfolk-VA.html
The Monticello Hotel, which opened at the corner of City Hall Avenue and Granby Street on September 27, 1898, was the largest and finest hotel in Norfolk for over 60 years. The hotel was built on filled land. By 1885 Town Back Creek had been fille…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNJG_battleship-wisconsin-bb-9-and-bb-64_Norfolk-VA.html
Battleships bearing the name Wisconsin have graced the waters off Norfolk and Hampton Roads since the beginning of the twentieth century. Ornately designed to show-off the "Stars and Stripes" of the United States, the first battleship Wisconsin (B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNI7_west-freemason-street-historic-district_Norfolk-VA.html
In 1686 one hundred acres of land in this vicinity were granted to the Elizabeth River Parish for a glebe. It was sold by the vestry in 1734 to a merchant named Samuel Smith. This was one of the first areas of Norfolk to be developed outside the b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNI6_old-norfolk-public-library_Norfolk-VA.html
Norfolk had several libraries for public use during the nineteenth century, among them that of the Norfolk Library Association, organized in 1870. Though designated "public," membership was not free. The fee to use the reading rooms and to check o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNI5_old-city-hall-and-courthouse-1850_Norfolk-VA.html
When Norfolk became an independent city in 1845, space was needed to accommodate municipal functions. The Classic Revival building was begun in 1847 and completed in 1850 as Norfolk's city Hall and Courthouse. The architect was William Singleton, …
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