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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GYN_estelle-and-george-abernathy_Newport-News-VA.html
For 53 years they defined the meaning of community involvement in the City of Newport News. Both George and Estell were pivotal in the growth and development of the community.
George was Chairman of Riverside Hospital Board of Trustees, chairman o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GYM_morrison_Newport-News-VA.html
A station named for Col. J. S. Morrison, Construction Engineer of the Peninsula Division, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, was built in the Warwick County Hamlet of Gum Grove on completion of the line between Richmond and Newport News on Oct. 16, 1881. …
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Capt. Edward Waters gave his name to Waters Creek when patented land here in 1624. In the spring of 1781 a force of 30 mounted militia led by Capt. Edward Mallory repulsed a British foraging party loaded with plunder near the mouth of the creek. I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMPA_hilton-village_Newport-News-VA.html
The nation's first Federal war-housing project, this planned community was sponsored by the U. S. Shipping Board and the Newport News Shipyard on the site of J. Pembroke Jones' Warwick County farm "Hilton". It was opened July 7, 1918, and sold to …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM924_waters-creek_Newport-News-VA.html
Preface: Newport News was a small community located in Warwick County until late in the 19th century. Established as a town in 1880, it was incorporated as a city in 1896. Warwick County, one of the eight original Virginia shires formed by 1634, b…