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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Norfolk, Virginia
Adjacent to Norfolk, Virginia
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| On East Charlotte Street at St Pauls Boulevard, on the right when traveling east on East Charlotte Street. |
| | The Bank Street Baptist Church was built on this site in 1802 as a Presbyterian church. In 1840 it was purchased by a group of free blacks to serve them as a Baptist church. Because it had one of the first church bells in Norfolk, the building was . . . — — Map (db m3323) HM |
| On East Plume Street at Atlantic Street, on the left when traveling east on East Plume Street. |
| | Tennessee native Samuel L. Slover established himself in Norfolk in 1905 as co-owner of the Public Ledger, a local newspaper. He later controlled six of Virginia’s most influential newspapers, Including the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, . . . — — Map (db m129624) HM |
| On East Main Street west of Commercial Place, on the right when traveling west. |
| | When a survey was done in 1680 to lay out the town of Norfolk, one of the few streets shown was “the street that leadeth to the water side.” The original location was just to the west of this site. It fanned out from Front (now Main) . . . — — Map (db m21041) HM |
| On E Freemason St, on the right when traveling west. |
| | This 1894 Richardsonian Romanesque granite and sandstone church was designed by Norfolk architects James E. R. Carpenter and John V. Peebles. It was built to accommodate the growing congregation of the 1850 Granby Street Methodist Church at the . . . — — Map (db m3372) HM |
| On West Main Street at Granby Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m21183) HM |
| On East Freemason Street at St Pauls Boulevard, on the left when traveling east on East Freemason Street. |
| | 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, his or her slaves.” Drake was . . . — — Map (db m129584) HM |
| On East Freemason Street at Bank Street, on the left when traveling east on East Freemason Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m48251) HM |
| On Tazewell Street near Granby St. |
| | Here stood the residence of Littleton Waller Tazewell, attorney, Virginia legislator, U.S. Congressman and Senator, and Governor of Virginia. The Williamsburg native came to Norfolk in 1802 to practice commercial and maritime law and was widely . . . — — Map (db m35089) HM |
| On Granby Street north of Main Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Granby Street was named in 1769 to honor Englishman John Manners (1721 – 1770), Marquess of Granby. The original street ran three blocks from Bute Street south to Town Back Creek, a semi-navigable stretch of marshland running . . . — — Map (db m21185) HM |
| On East Main Street at Martins Lane, on the right when traveling east on East Main Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m48245) HM |
| On East City Hall Avenue at Granby Street, on the right when traveling west on East City Hall Avenue. |
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"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 . . . — — Map (db m48239) HM |
| On East City Hall Avenue at Granby Street, on the right when traveling west on East City Hall Avenue. |
| | 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 filled . . . — — Map (db m48238) HM |
| | Moses Myers (1753-1835) was a shipping merchant who came to Norfolk in 1787 from New York. He acquired this site in September 1791 and built his distinguished Federal town house in 1792. It was one of the early brick buildings to be constructed in . . . — — Map (db m35092) HM |
| On Granby Street at College Place on Granby Street. |
| | On this site was the Norfolk College for Young Ladies, which was chartered on February 20, 1880 with Capt. John L. Roper as President of the Board. The school was designed by James H Calrow, one of Norfolk's leading architects at the time. It opened . . . — — Map (db m71671) HM |
| On Bank Street at City Hall Ave on Bank Street. |
| | 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, a . . . — — Map (db m35158) HM |
| On West Virginia Beach Boulevard (U.S. 58) at Llewellyn Avenue, on the right when traveling west on West Virginia Beach Boulevard. Reported missing. |
| | Pauline Adams, a native of Ireland who immigrated to the United States in her youth, was a woman’s rights activist who advocated a militant approach to the campaign for suffrage. The Equal Suffrage League of Norfolk was formed at her house in Ghent . . . — — Map (db m104849) HM |
| On East Freemason Street at Cumberland Street, on the right when traveling east on East Freemason Street. |
| | 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. In May 1893, a two-story brick building was . . . — — Map (db m129619) HM |
| Near Cumberland Street near Market Street. |
| | In 1641 a “chapel of ease” was built here where St. Paul’s Church is now. The 1680 survey of the new town designated this site for a church and burying ground. Many of the founders of Norfolk are buried here. When Norfolk became a . . . — — Map (db m3371) HM |
| On West Freemason Street at Duke Street, on the right when traveling east on West Freemason Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m48248) HM |
| On E Freemason Street 0.1 miles east of Bank Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Follow the Cannonball Trail through 400 years of Norfolk and American history. The Trail winds along the shoreline of the Elizabeth River and through the districts of downtown Norfolk. Walk the cobbled streets of West Freemason - the earliest . . . — — Map (db m136358) HM |
| On East Main Street at Granby Street, on the left when traveling west on East Main Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m21184) HM |
| On East City Hall Avenue at Monticello Avenue, on the right when traveling west on East City Hall Avenue. |
| | Town Back Creek, extending eastwardly from the Elizabeth River almost to St. Paul’s Church, was the northern end of the original town of Norfolk. By the early 1800’s new residential development had occurred north of the creek. Two early . . . — — Map (db m21225) HM |
| On Monticello Avenue at East Tazewell Street, on the left when traveling north on Monticello Avenue. |
| | Monticello Avenue, South of Market Street, was formerly Tripoli Street. It was named in honour of Commodore Stephen Decatur's victory over the Barbary Pirates, after he had requested that his own name should not be used. — — Map (db m3370) HM |
| On West. Freemason Street near Duke Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m35160) HM |
| On E. Freemason Street at Bank St. on E. Freemason Street. |
| | Patrick Parker, a wealthy merchant, built a Georgian style home here in 1791. Later occupants of the house included Hugh Blair Grigsby and John Boswell Whitehead, sons of Elizabeth McPherson. Elizabeth's first husband was the Reverend Benjamin . . . — — Map (db m35094) HM |
| On Cumberland Street at East Freemason Street, on the right when traveling north on Cumberland Street. |
| | This site was in the original Crown grant of 200 acres to Colonel Thomas Willoughby in 1636. Located on Freemason Street, so called because the Norfolk Royal Exchange Lodge of Masons erected the "Mason's Hall" on this site in 1764 as America's first . . . — — Map (db m64974) HM |
| On Fairfax Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Craney Island is 2 miles down, and across the Elizabeth River from this point. There on June 22, 1813, the Virginia Militia under General Robert B. Taylor of Norfolk, without losing a man, defeated 4000 British troops. They had come to destroy . . . — — Map (db m118856) HM WM |
| On Shirley Avenue 0.1 miles west of Botetourt Gardens, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Four years after the May 1954 U. S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation of public school students based on race was unconstitutional, the Commonwealth of Virginia continued to resist compliance. A fierce legal battle . . . — — Map (db m53463) HM |
| | Has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m85964) HM |
| | In the summer of 1834, having supervised Fort Monroe's completion, engineer Robert E. Lee took up residence in Fort Calhoun's officer's quarters. Three years earlier, ominous fissures had materialized in the citadel's stone piers and arches. . . . — — Map (db m85965) HM |
| On Hampton Boulevard (Virginia Route 337) at West 46th Street on Hampton Boulevard. |
| | Here from 1914 to 1961 stood the third armory of the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues (Battery B, 111th Field Artillery, Virginia National Guard) formed in 1829, as well as the Headquarters Battery, Regimental Band, and the 104th Medical Corps . . . — — Map (db m73932) HM |
| Near West 49th Street 0.1 miles west of Hampton Boulevard, on the left when traveling west. |
| |
In Honor of the Alumni of
Old Dominion University
who gave their lives in the defense
of our freedom and our Nation
(3 panels of alumni names) — — Map (db m135770) WM |
| On Hampton Boulevard (Virginia Route 337) at Brunswick Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Hampton Boulevard. |
| | On this site September 21, 1930, the first classes for 206 students were held at the Norfolk division of the College of William and Mary, now Old Dominion University. That year the Norfolk School Board gave the building, constructed in 1912 as the . . . — — Map (db m80409) HM |
| On Monticello Avenue (U.S. 460) north of East Virginia Beach Boulevard (U.S. 58), on the right when traveling north. |
| | This is the site of Fort Tar, built to guard the approach to the city from the west, situated on the outskirts of Norfolk, near Armistead’s Bridge, which spanned Glebe Creek nearby. It served with Forts Barbour, Norfolk, and Nelson to protect . . . — — Map (db m21186) HM |
| On Massey Hughes Drive 0.4 miles from Maryland Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Across Hampton Roads from this point the C.S.S. Virginia (Merrimac) and the U.S.S. Monitor fought, March 9, 1862. This was the first combat between iron-clad vessels in the history of the world. After a severe engagement in which each . . . — — Map (db m16420) HM |
| Near Botanical Gardens Access Road 0.6 miles east of Azalea Garden Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Weather
Weather has an impact on airplanes, so pilots must keep a close eye on the weather. Before a flight they look at weather reports, and during a flight they, communicate with air traffic controllers along their flight path to keep . . . — — Map (db m107183) HM |
| Near Waterside Drive at Boush Avenue. |
| | The Armed Forces Memorial is located here on a river that has for more than 200 years carried servicemen off to war and returned them home to loved ones. Within the Memorial are 20 inscriptions from letters written home by U.S. service members who . . . — — Map (db m3475) HM |
| Near Waterside Drive at Boush Avenue. |
| | Off this point in the Elizabeth River is the zero mile buoy marking the beginning of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. In colonial times water transportation was the principal mode for moving cargo. The idea of a canal connecting the Elizabeth . . . — — Map (db m3478) HM |
| Near Waterside Drive at Boush Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m35211) HM |
| Near Waterside Drive at Boush Street. |
| | Redefining the skyline of downtown Norfolk, battleship Wisconsin stands stoically with dominating presence. After months of dredging and construction, Wisconsin majestically slipped into the seemingly tailored berth without a hitch on . . . — — Map (db m3407) HM |
| Near Waterside Drive at Boush Street. |
| | Battleship Wisconsin and the sister-ships of the Iowa Class arguably hold a symbolic status as monuments in naval surface warship design. Unlike torpedo boats, tin-can destroyers, flat-top aircraft carriers, and pig-boat submarines, . . . — — Map (db m3378) HM |
| On Massey Hughes Drive 0.1 miles east of Maryland Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
| | On 14 Nov. 1910, off Old Point Comfort across the harbor from here, the U.S. Navy demonstrated that airplanes could be launched from ships. Flying a Curtiss biplane, Eugene Ely took off from a wooden ramp constructed atop the deck of the cruiser USS . . . — — Map (db m33242) HM |
| On East Virginia Beach Boulevard (U.S. 58) at Park Avenue (James A Clark Avenue) (Virginia Route 166), on the right when traveling west on East Virginia Beach Boulevard. |
| | James T. West High School, one of Virginia’s first accredited public high schools for African-Americans, was renamed in 1917 for Booker T. Washington, educator, author and orator. The school moved to a newly constructed building in 1924 and for . . . — — Map (db m130360) HM |
| On Granby Street (U.S. 460) at Blake Road, in the median on Granby Street. |
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Half a mile west is site of Confederate camp. Georgia and Virginia troops defending Norfolk were encamped there from April 1, 1861 until the evacuation of the city May 10, 1862 — — Map (db m76779) HM |
| On East Princess Anne Road west of Smith Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Cedar Grove was Norfolk’s first public cemetery, established in January 1825 after a Borough ordinance aimed at curbing yellow fever decreed that the “burying of the dead in lots lying on public and populous streets is ... injurious to the . . . — — Map (db m119770) HM |
| On East Princess Anne Road (Virginia Route 166) 0.1 miles west of Ingleside Road, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Confederate breastworks crossed this road extending from Tanner's Creek on the west to Broad Creek on the east with an intrenched camp to the west. Union soldiers under Major Gen. John E. Wool landed at Ocean View and marched to Norfolk over this . . . — — Map (db m87727) HM |
| Near Waterside Drive near Boush Avenue. |
| | In the 1950s the downtown waterfront contained an assortment of aging facilities-wharves, warehouses, rail lines, ship chandlers, tugboat operations, and ferry docks. The city of Norfolk made a significant decision. An area of downtown along the . . . — — Map (db m3480) HM |
| On East Main Street west of St Pauls Boulevard, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The portion of East Main Street between Commercial Place and Church Street (now St. Paul’s Boulevard) was notorious with servicemen all over the world until well after World War II. The district was home to taverns such as the Krazy Kat and Red . . . — — Map (db m123808) HM |
| On E. Princess Anne Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Elmwood Cemetery, established in 1853, is Norfolk's second-oldest municipal cemetery. Its monuments and statues, some crafted by nationally prominent artisans, bear the motifs of Victorian funerary art and reflect the Egyptian, Gothic, Greek, . . . — — Map (db m119650) HM |
| On East Princess Anne Road west of Smith Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Elmwood Cemetery was established in 1853 to ease the overcrowded conditions in the less than 30-year old Cedar Grove Cemetery, which lay across Smith’s Creek from the 50-acre parcel that would become Elmwood. The two cemeteries were connected by a . . . — — Map (db m119768) HM |
| On Lafayette Boulevard (Virginia Route 247) at Tidewater Drive (Virginia Route 168), on the right when traveling west on Lafayette Boulevard. |
| | On Chapel Street, south of this point, stood the home of Father Abram J. Ryan, beloved poet of the Confederacy. "But their memories e'er shall remain for us and their names, bright names, without stain for us: the glory they won shall not wane for . . . — — Map (db m36833) HM |
| | According to tradition, ferry service across the Elizabeth River was first established near this location in 1636 by Captain Adam Thoroughgood and operated by Lower Norfolk County. The earliest ferries were simply skiffs rowed by men. Later larger . . . — — Map (db m20363) HM |
| On Wood Street east of St Paul's Boulevard. |
| | First Baptist Church Norfolk Virginia has been registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark pursuant to the authority vested in the Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission act of 1966. This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic . . . — — Map (db m3327) HM |
| Near 4th View Street at O'Connor Crescent. |
| | On 14 November, 1910, Eugene Ely in a Curtiss built "Hudson Flyer," utilizing a specially constructed platform with an uptilt at the end, took off from the cruiser Birminham anchored off Fort Monroe and landed at Willoughby Spit, 2½ . . . — — Map (db m33357) HM |
| On Boush Street north of W Main Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Tidal flooding from hurricanes and northeasters has always been a part of Norfolk’s relationship with the sea. In 1693, the Royal Society of London reported that “there happened a most violent storm in Virginia, which stopped the course of . . . — — Map (db m3374) HM |
| Near Waterside Drive at Boush Street. |
| | 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 tobacco . . . — — Map (db m21212) HM |
| On East Brambleton Avenue (U.S. 460) at Church Street, on the right when traveling east on East Brambleton Avenue. |
| | Founded in 1855, the Hospital of St. Vincent dePaul was Norfolk’s first civilian hospital. Located two blocks south at the corner of Church and Wood strees, the hospital was opened in the home of Ann Plume Behan Herron by eight Daughters of Charity . . . — — Map (db m3324) HM |
| Near Botanical Gardens Access Road 0.6 miles east of Azalea Garden Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | What four forces act upon an airplane?
Air flowing over the curved wings of an airplane creates a force called lift.
As an airplane moves through the air, a force called drag tries to slow the plane down.
The force that pulls . . . — — Map (db m107181) HM |
| On Moffett Avenue at Dillingham Boulevard, on the right when traveling north on Moffett Avenue. |
| | Naval Air Station Norfolk was commissioned August 8, 1918 and is the birthplace of naval aviation. NAS Norfolk initially provided support for operational and experimental flights but quickly grew into a major sea plane base.
World War II . . . — — Map (db m70898) HM WM |
| On Waterside Drive near Boush Avenue. |
| | 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 carrier . . . — — Map (db m21213) HM |
| On Bacon Avenue at Morris Street, on the right when traveling north on Bacon Avenue. |
| | From 1933 to 1942, Navy recruits of African descent attended this school, located in barracks at Unit “K-West” and later at “B-East.” Advancement opportunities for these sailors and counterparts of Asian-Pacific Island . . . — — Map (db m70260) HM |
| On South Newtown Road at Princess Ann Road, on the right when traveling south on South Newtown Road. |
| | New Town once stood to the south along the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River. The community was laid out in 1697 and General Assembly established it as a town in 1740. New Town served as county seat of Princess Anne County from about 1752 to . . . — — Map (db m3326) HM |
| Near Waterside Drive west of Martins Lane, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Town Point is where Norfolk began. In 1680 the General Assembly of his Majesty's Colony of Virginia enacted a law requiring each county to establish and develop a town site. In lower Norfolk County fifty acres of land at the entrance of the Eastern . . . — — Map (db m70920) HM |
| On Botanical Gardens Ac Road. |
| | These gardens were conceived by City Manager Thomas Thompson during the Great Depression. His idea was executed by city gardener Frederic Heutte; noted landscape architect Charles F. Gillette served as a consultant. In 1938 about 200 black women . . . — — Map (db m34949) HM |
| Near Botanical Gardens Access Road 0.6 miles east of Azalea Garden Road (Route 192), on the right when traveling east. |
| | How busy is Norfolk International Airport?
Norfolk International Airport has grown from a small municipal airport in the 1940's to a major international airport. The present passenger terminal carrier completed in 1974 and the airport began . . . — — Map (db m107182) HM |
| On St Paul's Boulevard at East City Hall Avenue, on the right when traveling north on St Paul's Boulevard. |
| | This marks the Northern limit of the fifty acres constituting the original town of Norfolk. It was bounded on the North by Town Back Creek and Dun-In-The-Mire Creek. The land was purchased as a port for lower Norfolk county for “tenn thousand . . . — — Map (db m3367) HM |
| On Church Street (U.S. 460) north of East Olney Road, on the right when traveling north. |
| | North Carolina native Plummer Bernard (P.B.) Young moved to Norfolk in 1907 to work at the Lodge Journal and Guide, the newspaper of an African American fraternal organization. He bought the paper in 1910, expanded its scope, and renamed it . . . — — Map (db m113245) HM |
| On Wood Street east of St Paul's Boulevard, on the right when traveling east. |
| | St. John’s African Methodist Episcopal Church has been registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark pursuant to the authority vested in the Virginia Historic Landmarks Board Act 1966. This property has been entered in the national Register of . . . — — Map (db m3329) HM |
| Near Boush Street (Virginia Route 337) at West Main Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | President Thomas Jefferson founded the Survey of the Coast in 1807. This federal agency was charged with supporting maritime commerce by providing accurate surveys and nautical charts of our coastal waters. It was dangerous and sometimes deadly . . . — — Map (db m84325) HM |
| Near Waterside Drive (Virginia Route 337) at Main Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Follow the Cannonball Trail through 400 years of Norfolk and American history. The Trail winds along the shoreline of the Elizabeth River and through the districts of downtown Norfolk. Walk the cobbled streets of West Freeman - the earliest . . . — — Map (db m106628) HM |
| Near Waterside Drive near Boush Street. |
| | A cedar tree near this location, then known as Foure Farthing Pointe, was described in the original patent defining the western boundary of the 50 acres that comprised Norfolk Town. In August 1680 John Ferebee, surveyor for Lower Norfolk County, was . . . — — Map (db m3409) HM |
| On Waterside Drive near Boush Avenue. |
| | On March 8, 1862 CSS Virginia steamed past this point (1) to a battle which would forever change naval warfare. This ship had previously been a Union steam frigate, USS Merrimack, which had been destroyed near the Gosport Navy Yard . . . — — Map (db m3476) HM |
| | After northern states began abolishing slavery during the Revolutionary era, fugitives from throughout southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina started to escape by ship from the Norfolk waterfront. With luck and determination, many . . . — — Map (db m5602) HM |
| Near C Street west of 1st Street. |
| | Dedicated to the memory of the submarines, their officers and crews who are still on patrol beneath the sea.
May the flame of patriotism that drove these men be kindled in the breasts of all who view this memorial .... — — Map (db m33328) WM |
| Near Hughes Drive 0.2 miles east of Maryland Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
| | In lasting tribute to their honor, courage and commitment:
Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter, 21 Hull Maintenance Technician Second Class Mechanicsville, VA
Richard Costelow, 35 Chief Electronics Technician (Surface Warfare) Morrisville, PA . . . — — Map (db m17002) HM |
| Near Hughes Drive 0.2 miles east of Maryland Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
| | [Rendering of the guided missile destroyer USS COLE]
At 1118 on the morning of October 12, 2000, as USS COLE (DDG 67) was refueling in Aden Harbor, Yemen, suicide bombers detonated an explosive-laden boat directly against the port side of . . . — — Map (db m51533) HM |
| On Massey Hughes Drive 0.4 miles from Maryland Avenue, on the left when traveling east. |
| | FC3 T. T. Adams •
GM3 R. W. Backherms •
EMFA D. C. Battle •
GM3(SW) W. S. Blakey •
GM3 P. E. Bopp •
SR R. J. Bradshaw •
LTjg P. E. Buch •
SA E. E. Casey •
GM2 J. P. Cramer •
GM3 M. F. Devaul, Jr. •
SA L. Allen Everhart, Jr. . . . — — Map (db m33263) WM |
| On East Princess Anne Road west of Salter Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | This historically African American burial place, first known as Potter’s Field, was established as Calvary Cemetery in 1873 and renamed West Point Cemetery in 1885. James E. Fuller, Norfolk’s first African American councilman, secured a section for . . . — — Map (db m119608) HM |
| On E. Princess Anne Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | West Point Cemetery was Norfolk’s first municipal cemetery for African Americans, after an 1827 ordinance provided for their interment in a section of Potter’s Field just north of the borough limits. The section was set off exclusively for the . . . — — Map (db m119653) HM |
| Near East Princess Anne Road. |
| | The memorial before you, the West Point Monument, was built in 1909 as a tribute to African American veterans of the Civil War and Spanish-American War. James A. Fuller, a former slave and veteran of the 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry, led the effort to . . . — — Map (db m84001) HM |
| Near East Princess Anne Road. |
| | Erected by the Norfolk Memorial Association in the memory of our heroes, 1861 - 1865 — — Map (db m72224) WM |
| | The depot began in 1917 as part of the Naval Air Detachment of six canvas hangers servicing seven seaplanes. Before the depot closed in 1996, its name changed over time from Construction and Repair (1918), Assembly and Repair (1922), Overhaul and . . . — — Map (db m132564) HM |
| On Baylor Place at West Little Creek Road (Virginia Route 165), on the right when traveling north on Baylor Place. |
| | The U.S. Army dirigible Roma crashed and exploded just west of here during a test flight on 21 Feb 1922. The crash, the deadliest involving a U.S. hydrogen airship, killed 34 out of the 45 officers, crewmen, and civilians on board. . . . — — Map (db m145923) HM |
| On Church Street (U.S. 460) at Fremont Street, on the right when traveling south on Church Street. |
| | 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 branches. Baker . . . — — Map (db m129620) HM |
| On Bousch Street near USS Wisconsin at Nauticus, foot of W Plume St. |
| | A primary antiaircraft weapon used by Allied forces during the violent air and sea battles of World War II was the Mark 2 quadruple mounted 40 millimeter gun mount, or "Quad 40." Each individual Quad 40 gun was capable of firing shells weighting two . . . — — Map (db m35155) HM |
| On West Freemason Street at Duke Street, on the right when traveling west on West Freemason Street. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m48252) HM |
| On Brooke Avenue near Pagoda Park, Harbor St. |
| | The Marine Observation Tower, also known as the Pagoda, was a gift to the Commonwealth of Virginia and the City of Norfolk from the Taiwan Provincial Government, Republic of China, as a result of a Sister State relationship established in 1981. . . . — — Map (db m35156) HM |
| On West Freemason Street. |
| | 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 out . . . — — Map (db m35159) HM |
| On Bousch Street near Wisconsin Square, foot of Harbour St.. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m34951) HM |
| Near Brooke Avenue at Harbour Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | About 9:30 a.m., September 11, 2001, a hijacked commercial airliner was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia killing 35 active duty, retired and reserve naval personnel, along with other military personnel and innocent . . . — — Map (db m48344) HM |
| On Bousch Street near Wisconsin Square ft of Harbor St.. |
| | 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 . . . — — Map (db m34950) HM |
| On Bousch Street near Wisconsin Square, foot of Harbour St.. |
| | 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, . . . — — Map (db m34952) HM |
| On Bousch Street near Wisconsin Square, foot of Harbour St.. |
| | In memory of the 134 men that died on 29 July 1967 during a tragic fire on board the USS Forrestal CVA-59 while conducting combat operations against North Vietnam. An additional 142 shipmates lost their lives while serving on USS Forrestal during . . . — — Map (db m34963) HM |
| Near Brooke Avenue at Harbour Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | On the morning of April 19, 1989, USS Iowa (BB-61) was underway north of Puerto Rico conducting routine training exercises when the #2 16" gun turret exploded, killing 47 men working within its steel-encased bulkheads.
"They were just men with . . . — — Map (db m48345) HM |
| Near Brooke Avenue at Harbour Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | USS Kearsarge, scheduled to depart for the Mediterranean Sea on June 1, 1948, was anchored off Naval Station, Norfolk in anticipation of an early morning departure.
Sailors and Marines returning to the ship the night of May 31 encountered heavy . . . — — Map (db m65543) HM |
| On Bousch Street near Wisconsin Square, foot of Harbour St.. |
| | "On June 8, 1967, during the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab States, the American Intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked for 75 minutes by Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo boats. Liberty was left with over 820 rocket and cannon holes, . . . — — Map (db m34962) HM |
| Near Brooke Avenue at Harbour Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | At 0100 hours on October 1, 1972, the USS Newport News was firing a support mission off the coast of South Vietnam. An 8 inch projectile jammed in the center gun of Turret Two. The subsequent implosion and fire killed 20 crewmembers and injured 36 . . . — — Map (db m48342) HM |
| On Bousch Street near Wisconsin Square ft of Harbor St.. |
| | On the night of May 25, 1981, while operating off the Florida coast, a twin engine EA-6B jet aircraft crashed into the flight deck of USS Nimitz CVN-68, killing 14 crewmembers and injuring 45 others. Nimitz pulled into port, had its catapults . . . — — Map (db m48518) HM |
| On Bousch Street near Wisconsin Square, foot of Harbour St.. |
| | The first Naval vessel to bear the name Norfolk was a brigantine built in 1798 to protect American commerce against armed French vessels in the West Indies.
The second USS Norfolk, Destroyer Leader I, was a submarine "hunter-killer" ship and . . . — — Map (db m35153) HM |
| On Bousch Street near Wisconsin Square ft of Harbor St.. |
| | USS Scorpion, a Skipjack class nuclear-powered attack submarine homeported in Norfolk, Virginia began a Mediterranean deployment in February 1968. The following May 22nd, while homeward bound from that deployment, she was lost with her entire crew . . . — — Map (db m34958) HM |
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