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During the 17th century, shortly after establishment of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, English settlers and explorers began settling the areas adjacent to Hampton Roads. In 1610, Sir Thomas Gates took possession of a nearby Native American village which became known as Kecoughtan. In 1619, the area of Newport News was included in one of four ...
Newport News (/ ˌ n uː p ɔːr t-,-p ər t-/) [6] is an independent city in southeastern Virginia, United States.At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. [5] Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the fifth-most populous city in Virginia and 140th-most populous city in the United States.
Jessie M. Rattley was born to the late Alonzo and Altona Menifield, on May 4, 1929, in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended schools in and graduated from Fairfield High School in 1947, after which she entered Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia, graduating with honors in 1951. That same year Mrs. Rattley began her teaching career at Huntington ...
Date apprehended. February 4, 1984. Syvasky Lafayette Poyner (April 7, 1956 – March 18, 1993) was an American rapist and spree killer who killed four women and a teenage girl during a series of armed robberies in Hampton, Virginia in 1984. Convicted of multiple counts of capital murder and condemned to death, Poyner was executed in 1993.
Newport News, Virginia. Died. December 15, 1990. (1990-12-15) (aged 94) Hampton, Hampton City, Virginia. Occupation. newspaper editor. Dorothy Eva Rouse Bottom (May 17, 1896 – December 15, 1990) was an American newspaper editor and civic leader.
Styron was born in the Hilton Village historic district [2] of Newport News, Virginia, the son of Pauline Margaret (Abraham) and William Clark Styron. [3] His birthplace was less than a hundred miles from the site of Nat Turner's slave rebellion, the inspiration for Styron's most famous and controversial novel.
National Register of Historic Places in Newport News, Virginia (34 P) Pages in category "History of Newport News, Virginia" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
August 23: Hurricane. 12. U.S. military aircraft carrier USS Ranger launched at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. 16. 1937 – Aberdeen Gardens (housing) built in nearby Hampton for shipworkers. 1942 – U.S. military Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation headquartered in Newport News during World War II. 12.