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George W. Carver High School. . African American residents of Warwick County campaigned for new public schools to replace inadequate, overcrowded facilities in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1949 the county opened Carver High School, constructed here at …
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Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. . This house was the last headquarters of the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, organized In 1907 by educator and social reformer Janie Porter Barrett and other women who att…
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Deaf and Blind School. . In 1906, the Virginia General Assembly authorized the Virginia School for Colored Deaf and Blind Children. Founded by deaf humanitarian William C. Ritter and Hampton Delegate Harry R. Houston, the school opened on 8 Sep…
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War of 18 12. Military Legacy. John Thorowgood Jr., Revolutionary-Era leader, lived on an 840-acre plantation near here, on Little Creek. He was elected to the Convention of 1776, which adopted Virginia's resolutions for independence, the Virg…
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Bay Shore Hotel. . A group of prominent local African Americans formed the Bay Shore Hotel Company, purchased land here, and in 1898 opened a resort for black travelers. Ravaged by an Aug. 1933 hurricane, the resort was rebuilt and operated un…
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Col. John Thorowgood Jr.. . John Thorowgood Jr., Revolutionary-Era leader, lived on an 840-acre plantation near here, on Little Creek. He was elected to the Convention of 1776, which adopted Virginia's resolutions for independence, the Virgini…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E9C_camp-ashby_Virginia-Beach-VA.html
Camp Ashby. . Camp Ashby, a World War II prisoner of war camp for German soldiers, occupied more than 200 acres just north of here. Its headquarters was the main building of the former Tidewater Memorial Hospital, a tuberculosis …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E4Q_francis-drake-free-black-barber_Norfolk-VA.html
Francis Drake, Free Black Barber. . Francis Drake, a slave barber, was the first black to gain his freedom in post-Revolutionary War Norfolk after a 1782 Act of the Virginia General Assembly authorized "any person...to emancipate and set free…
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St. Joseph's Catholic Church & School. . St. Joseph's Parrish was established for Norfolk's African Americans by the Josephite Order in September 1889, with a place of worship and a school for students from elementary grades through high school. I…
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Ella J. Baker. Ella Baker, born in Norfolk, was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement for five decades. In the 1940s she was a field secretary with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and later served as its director of …