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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNDF_uss-cole-ddg-67_Norfolk-VA.html
At 11:18 on the morning of October 12, 2000, while USS Cole was refueling in Aden Harbor, Yemen, terrorist suicide attackers detonated an explosive-laden boat against the ship's port side. The blast tore a hole 40 by 60 feet in the ship's hull, ki…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNDE_the-lone-sailor_Norfolk-VA.html
Donated by friends of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation, Washington, D.C.This statue is an exact replica of the famous Lone Sailor Statue created by sculptor Stanley Bleifeld to grace the United States Navy Memorial in Washington D.C. The Lone Sai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNDD_uss-belknap-cg-26_Norfolk-VA.html
On 22 November 1975, the cruiser USS Belknap (CG 26) collided with the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) during night maneuvers in the Ionian Sea. As the carrier's overhanging flight deck sheared off Belknap's superstructure, Kennedy's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME06_town-back-creek-and-stone-bridge_Norfolk-VA.html
Town Back Creek, extend?ing east?wardly from the Elizabeth River almost to St. Paul's Church, was the north?ern end of the orig?i?nal town of Norfolk. By the early 1800's new res?i?den?tial devel?op?ment had occurred north of the creek. Two early …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDZW_navy-escort-carriers-based-in-norfolk_Norfolk-VA.html
Navy Escort Carriers based in Norfolk helped win the Battle of the Atlantic. They were the smallest, slowest, and most vulnerable of the Navy's aircraft carriers, but as noted World War II historian Samuel Eliot Morison wrote, "These escort carrie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDZV_half-moone-fort-1673_Norfolk-VA.html
Hostilities between the British and the Dutch continued for a number of years after the British took New Amsterdam in 1664 and established the colony of New York. The effects were felt in Hampton Roads where Dutch ships destroyed a fleet of tobacc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDZ8_fort-tar_Norfolk-VA.html
This is the site of Fort Tar, built to guard the approach to the city from the west, sit?u?ated on the outkirts of Norfolk, near Armistead's Bridge, which spanned Glebe Creek nearby. It served with Forts Barbour, Norfolk, and Nelson to pro?tect No…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDZ7_granby-street_Norfolk-VA.html
Granby Street was named in 1769 to honor Englishman John Manners (1721 - 1770), Marquess of Granby. The orig?i?nal street ran three blocks from Bute Street south to Town Back Creek, a semi-navigable stretch of marshland run?ning the le…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDZ6_the-customhouse-1859_Norfolk-VA.html
Construction of this customhouse began in 1852 and was completed in 1859, replacing an 1819 customhouse located at Water and Church Streets (now Waterside Drive and St. Paul's Boulevard). This building was designed by Ammi B. Young (1798-1874), th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDZ5_four-farthing-or-town-point_Norfolk-VA.html
Here at a cedar tree was the western limit of the fifty acres constituting the original town of Norfolk. The land was bought in 1682 as a port for lower Norfolk County from Nicholas Wise, Jr. for "tenn thousand pounds of tobacco and caske." It was…
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