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 . . . — — Map (db m13945) HM
Hampton entered its second century as Virginia’s most important town. With merchant ships calling at its docks, paying customs duties and taking on hogsheads of tobacco, the growing village bustled with activity. Crews and ship captains, dockworkers . . . — — Map (db m76810) HM
The Phoenix Iron Works of Philadelphia made this carriage for a Parrott rifle (cannon). The weapon fired a 100 pound projectile 8500 yards. Carriage and gun weighed almost 13,000 pounds. In 1978 this carriage was recovered from a long-lost . . . — — Map (db m67807) HM
Author of "Blackbeard, a Comedy," 1824, an early drama on North Carolina, & other works. Member of Congress. Grave 160 yds. N.W. — — Map (db m165205) HM
This was Virginia's chief prison which housed debtors and criminals and served as the jail for the General Court in the nearby Capitol. Here Blackbeard's pirates, captured in 1718, were confined until the day of their hanging. Leg irons, an exercise . . . — — Map (db m79241) HM
Nick Name Blackbeard
Ship Queen Anne's Revenge
Background
Blackbeard's early life is not well documented, but he was likely born
between 1680 and 1685 to a wealthy family in Bristol. An important
seaport in . . . — — Map (db m219861) HM
Once called the "richest and wickedest city in the world," Port Royal was also the virtual capital of Jamaica. To it came men of all races, treasures of silks, doubloons and gold from Spanish ships, looted on the high seas by the notorious "Brethren . . . — — Map (db m91193) HM
Bath, the oldest incorporated town in North Carolina, was established in 1705. By the 1708 the town consisted of twelve houses and a population of fifty people. Among the early inhabitants were John Lawson, Surveyor General of the colony and . . . — — Map (db m67575) HM
Pirates plundered ships along the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean routes from the earliest days of New World settlement. William Berkeley, governor of the Virginia colony in 1660, wrote that the “Seas are soe full of Pyrates that it is almost . . . — — Map (db m64604) HM
The Sea Trading period brought fame and prosperity to Edenton and famous forefathers who saw promise here, chose to stay and, over time, became among our Nation's Leaders: Samuel Johnston (Age: 20, 1753), appointed to first Continental . . . — — Map (db m224497) HM
Once called "the richest and wickedest city in the world", Port Royal
became the headquarters city for Pirates in the Caribbean. To it came
men of all races. Treasures of silks, doubloons and gold from Spanish
ships, looted on the high seas by . . . — — Map (db m219778) HM
Bath, oldest town in North Carolina, was established in 1705. The first settlers were French Huguenots from Virginia. Among the early English inhabitants were John Lawson, author of the first history of Carolina (1709) and Christopher Gale, Chief . . . — — Map (db m67574) HM
In the late 1600s detractors of the Danish Colony referred
to St. Thomas with justification as "The Den of Pirates".
Pirates performed acts of bloody violence. Times glossed over their
crimes and imbued them with romance. Titillating legends . . . — — Map (db m193622) HM
Bimini through Time
Gateway to the Bahamas
As the nearest island of The Bahamas to the Florida Peninsula, Bimini's history has been influenced by its location.
From the earliest inhabitants, the Lucian-Taino people, hundreds of . . . — — Map (db m234690) HM
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
