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Newport News Shipbuilding ( NNS ), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including ...
Joseph Jenckes Jr., early settler of Pawtucket, Warwick, and Providence. Stephen Northup, built house that remains as one of oldest in the state. John Steere, early settler of Providence and Smithfield, Rhode Island. Pardon Tillinghast, early pastor of the First Baptist Church in America. John Whipple, early settler of Providence.
1881–1896: tiny farming village becomes a new city. Newport News was merely an area of farm lands and a fishing village until the coming of the railroad and the subsequent establishment of the great shipyard. As a 16-year-old in 1837, Collis P. Huntington had visited the rural village known as Newport News Point.
Newport News is home to The Mariners' Museum and Park. The museum is located at 100 Museum Drive in Newport News, Virginia. (1994) Aerial view of the Newport News shipyard. Visible in the drydocks are USS Long Beach and USNS Gilliland. On July 11, 1900, the Virginia League folded after Petersburg and Richmond had already folded in mid-June.
Rough Point. Rough Point is one of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, now open to the public as a museum. It is an English Manorial style home designed by architectural firm Peabody & Stearns for Frederick William Vanderbilt. [1] Construction on the red sandstone and granite [2] began in 1887 and was completed 1892.
Good Old Days in Hampton and Newport News. Richmond: Dietz Press. OCLC 13983158. John V. Quarstein and Parke S. Rouse Jr. Newport News: A Centennial History. Newport News: City of Newport News, 1996; Melissa Simpson (June 25, 1996), "Glance At 100 Years: A City's History 1896–Present", Daily Press (Timeline) Jane Carter Webb (2003). Newport ...
November 24, 1968. The Museum of Newport History is a history museum in the Old Brick Market building in the heart of Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It is owned and operated by the Newport Historical Society at 127 Thames Street on Washington Square. The building, designed by noted 18th-century American architect Peter Harrison and built ...
1679/1680. The Mawdsley House is not the only historical property in Newport related to Gov. Benedict Arnold, either. Arnold deeded the land to another son-in-law, John Bliss, who built this ...