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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28LR_cedar-grove-cemetery_Portsmouth-VA.html
The Town of Portsmouth established Cedar Grove Cemetery just outside town limits in 1832. A trove of 19th-century funerary art, the cemetery contains monuments and statues handcrafted in the Victorian, Greek Revival, and Egyptian Revival styles, m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2876_mount-calvary-cemetery-complex_Portsmouth-VA.html
African Americans purchased land about a quarter mile southwest of here in 1879 to establish Mt. Olive Cemetery. The property adjoins a potter's field thought to be a burial place for victims of the yellow fever epidemic of 1855. Later, Mt. Calvar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM259H_israel-charles-norcom-high-school_Portsmouth-VA.html
I.C. Norcom (1856-1916) was an African American educator and administrator who served Portsmouth schools for more than 30 years. The first school to bear his name opened in 1920 three quarters of a mile southeast of here. Principal William E. Ridd…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LCF_elks-lodge_Portsmouth-VA.html
This Romanesque Revival dwelling was constructed for Laura C. Armistead and her family in 1894 by her father Beverly A. Armistead, president of the Bank of Portsmouth. Identifying features of this architectural style are the round arches over thic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KU9_portsmouth-naval-hospital_Portsmouth-VA.html
Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861. On April 2, the Governor ordered the 3rd Virginia Regiment to occupy and fortify the Navy Hospital grounds. A battery of earthen works was hastily erected on the point and renamed Fort Nelson, aft…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KU8_portsmouth-naval-hospital_Portsmouth-VA.html
After the Spanish defeat at the battle of Santiago, Cuba, in July 1898, the sick and injured needed treatment. The newly converted hospital ship USS Solace transported 55 sick U.S. Navy and 48 wounded Spanish sailors to the hospital. The Spanish p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KU7_portsmouth-naval-hospital_Portsmouth-VA.html
World War II created the need to rapidly expand the hospital in 1941. The $1.5 million program increased the number of hospital beds to 3,441. A dental clinic, ships service, library and a bank were added. The staff — medical officers, nurse…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KU6_portsmouth-naval-hospital_Portsmouth-VA.html
By 1900, time and use had taken its toll on the hospital building. In October 1907, the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ordered hospital personnel to remove patients to tent-covered wooden platforms constructed several hundred yards away fro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KU5_portsmouth-naval-hospital_Portsmouth-VA.html
Building 215 was constructed to provide a much needed modern hospital and to centralize the medical departments scattered around the base. The 500-bed hospital became the command's second primary hospital facility when commissioned in April 1960. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KU4_portsmouth-naval-hospital_Portsmouth-VA.html
On June 17, 1898, President William McKinley signed a bill establishing the Navy Hospital Corps. Navy Corpsmen are trained in the science of health and nursing skills necessary to provide proper patient care at hospitals, ships at sea and to the U…