Lower Tidewater History In Three Volumes + Bonus - Virginia History

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The History of
Lower Tidewater Virginia
In Three Volumes
By Rogers Dey Whichard
515 + 469 + 447 pages, Profusely Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
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Bonus Book –
The Foreshore
Of Old Virginia
By Ernest McNeil Eller, 1931
70 pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
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“This Lower Tidewater area of Virginia is closely knit together by the
common harbor of its
component communities, Hampton Roads. It is, both from the cultural and economic points of view, one of the most interesting parts of Virginia, and in those regards second to few areas of the English-speaking territories of the North American continent.
“Here were made some
of the first explorations outside the English settle
ment at Roanoke
Island in 1585. Here the Colonists sent out by the London Company made their first landings in 1607, before arriving at Jamestown. Here the Anglican communion and the English common law gained their earliest footholds, second only to Jamestown, and here one of the four great corporations was laid out in 1619 and three of the eight original counties were established in 1634. Here are preserved the third oldest continuous county records in Virginia dating from 1637; here are located the two oldest existing municipalities, established by law in 1680, one of which was to become the second of the only two chartered in Virginia before the American Revolution. Here is located, also, the oldest continuous settlement in British America, dating from 1610.
“This area contained
some of the oldest grammar schools and private
libraries in
Virginia, dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its public and parochial school systems are unsurpassed, and it has two collegiate institutions of higher learning and the State's oldest normal school for the education of Negroes and Indians.
“The port of Hampton
Roads, served by first-class highways, bridges, ferries, tunnels, and many rail, steamship, bus and air lines, is the best on the Atlantic coast. Here is the world's greatest harbor, the world's largest coal-dumping port, the world's greatest peanut market. Here is some of the most beautiful dairy and truck farm land in Virginia. Here is the home of the famous Smithfield ham, Lynnhaven oyster, Hampton crab and Ocean View spot. Here are many other commercial and industrial enterprises: ship-building, fertilizer, seafood, lumber, pulp, paper, just to mention a few. Here are the oldest Naval Shipyard and Naval Hospital, the largest Naval Base in our country, the headquarters of all its Ground Forces, and one of its most important Air Force Bases. Here are also some of the most famous vacation and resort areas on the Atlantic coast and the Chesapeake Bay shore.”
CONTENTS - VOLUME I
PART I
Background
I Geographical i
II Aboriginal 13
III Historical 45
PART II
The Corporation and County of Elizabeth City
IV The Corporation and County of Elizabeth City, 1619-1634 77
V The Shire or County of Elizabeth City, 1634-1700 . .111
VI Elizabeth City County and the Town of Hampton,
700-1814 135
VII The Town and City of Hampton and Elizabeth City County,
1814-1957. 171
VIII Fort Monroe and Langley Field, 1609-1957 191
PART III
The Upper and Lower Counties of New Norfolk
IX The County of New Norfolk, 1636 219
X The Lower County OF New Norfolk, 1 637- 1 69 1 . . -233
XI The County of Norfolk, 169 1-1957 285
XII Norfolk Town, 1 680- 1 736 325
XIII The Borough of Norfolk, 1 736-1 775 371
XIV The Borough OF Norfolk, 1775-1845 415
XV The City of Norfolk, 1845-1900 459
XVI The City OF Norfolk, 1900-1957 489
CONTENTS - VOLUME II
XV The Town of Portsmouth, 1752-1858 i
XVI The City of Portsmouth, i 858-1957 17
XVII The Town and City of South Norfolk, 1919-195 7 . . 47
XVIII The County of Princess Anne, 169 1-1957 53
XIX The Town AND City of Virginia Beach, 1880-1957. . -113
XX The Upper County of Norfolk or Nansemond County,
1634-1957 '33
XXI The Town AND City of Suffolk, 1742-1957 157
XXII The Great Dismal Swamp 181
PART IV
The Comities of Warwick River and Warrosquyoake
XXV Warwick River Shire, 1634-1957. ......193
XXVI The City OF Newport News, 1 896-1957, 211
XXVII Warrosquyoake Shire or Isle of Wight County, 1634-1957. 249
XXVIII The Town of Smithfield, 1752-1957 267
XXIX The County OF Southampton, 1749-1957..... 285
XXX Search for the Chesapeake: The Roanoke Island Colonies,
1584-1587. 305
XXXI The Refounding of Virginia: Jamestown, 1607-1634. . . 331
XXXII The Jamestown Exposition and Festival and the Norfolk
Naval Base, 1907-1917-1957 357
Bibliography 357
Index 381
ILLUSTRATIONS
CONTENTS - VOLUME III
Family and personal history - Includes bibliographical
references.
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