Timeline of Norfolk, Virginia
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Norfolk, Virginia, United States.
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Prior to 19th century
19th century
- 1804 - Female Orphan Society founded.
- 1819 - U.S. Customhouse built.
- 1828 - Christ Church built.
- 1845 - Norfolk attains city status.
- 1850
- 1853 - "Negro free school" and Elmwood Cemetery established.
- 1854 - Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery established.
- 1855 - Yellow fever outbreak.
- 1857 - U.S. Customhouse built on Main Street.
- 1858
- 1862 - May 10: Union forces in power.
- 1865 - Colored Monitor Union Club formed.
- 1870 - Norfolk Library Association founded.[7]
- 1873 - West Point Cemetery established.
- 1875 - Masonic Temple built.
- 1877 - Norfolk and Portsmouth Cotton Exchange incorporated.
- 1887 - Brambleton becomes part of Norfolk.[9]
- 1888 - St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church built.
- 1890
- Atlantic City becomes part of Norfolk.[9]
- Population: 34,871.
- 1894 - Norfolk Daily Pilot newspaper begins publication.[10]
- 1898 - Monticello Hotel in business.
20th century
- 1900
- 1901 - Norfolk Journal and Guide newspaper in publication.[11]
- 1902 - Park Place becomes part of Norfolk.[9]
- 1904 - Freemason Street Library opens.[7]
- 1906 - Berkley becomes part of Norfolk.
- 1907
- 1910
- 1911 - Huntersville and Lambert's Point become part of Norfolk.[9]
- 1912 - Norfolk Terminal Station built.
- 1917 - U.S. Naval Operating Base and NAACP branch[12] established.
- 1918 - Southern Bagging Company building constructed.
- 1919
- 1921 - Virginia Beach Boulevard opens.
- 1922 - U.S. Marine Hospital built.
- 1923 - Algonquin Park, Cottage Park, Edgewater, Kenilworth, Lafayette Annex, Lakewood, Larchmont, Lenox, Morning Side, Norfolk Naval Base, Ocean View (part), and Willoughby become part of city.[9]
- 1930 - College of William & Mary Norfolk Division established.
- 1932 - U.S. Post Office and Courthouse built.
- 1933 - Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences opens.
- 1938 - Norfolk Municipal Airport[13] and Norfolk Azalia Garden open.
- 1940 - Norfolk Housing Authority created.[13]
- 1941 - Merrimack Park dedicated.[13]
- 1948 - Wilders Drive-In cinema in business.[14]
- 1952
- 1954 - Azalea Festival begins.[13]
- 1955 - Tanners Creek becomes part of city.[9]
- 1958 - Sister city program established with Moji, Japan.[13]
- 1959
- Azalea Gardens, East Ocean View, Janaf, Little Creek, and Military Highway become part of city.[9]
- February: School desegregation begins.[15]
- 1962 - Midtown Tunnel begins operating.
- 1965 - City Hall built.[13]
- 1966 - Virginia Wesleyan College opens.[13]
- 1967
- 1969
- 1971 - Norfolk Scope conventional hall opens.[13]
- 1974 - Virginia Opera formed.
- 1983 - Waterside shopping centre in business.
- 1987 - Dominion Tower built.
- 1989 - Norfolk Southern Tower built.
- 1990 - Population: 261,229.[4]
- 1993
- 1994 - Paul D. Fraim becomes mayor.
- 1996 - City website online (approximate date).[17]
- 1998 - Armed Forces Memorial dedicated.[13]
21st century
See also
- Other cities in Virginia
References
- ↑ Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.
- 1 2 Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- 1 2 Peggy Haile McPhillips. "History of the Norfolk Public Library Timeline". Norfolk Public Library. Retrieved August 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Norfolk Public Library. "List of Norfolk & Portsmouth City Annexations". Retrieved August 2014.
- ↑ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 2014.
- ↑ American Newspaper Annual, N. W. Ayer & Son, 1921
- ↑ H. Lewis Suggs (1983). "Black Strategy and Ideology in the Segregation Era: P. B. Young and the Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1910-1954". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 91. JSTOR 4248629.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Norfolk Public Library. "Chronology of Norfolk". Retrieved August 2014.
- 1 2 "Movie Theaters in Norfolk, VA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved August 2014.
- ↑ "Notable dates in Virginia history". Virginia Historical Society. Retrieved May 2015.
- ↑ "Virginia". Official Congressional Directory. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1993.
- ↑ "City of Norfolk: Official Web Site". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Notable dates in Virginia history". Virginia Historical Society.
- ↑ Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Virginia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via Hathi Trust
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- Published in the 20th century
- Illustrated Standard Guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth, Norfolk, Va: Standard Lithographing and Publishing Co., 1907
- "Norfolk", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Hill's Norfolk and Portsmouth (Virginia) City Directory. 1931 – via Norfolk Public Library.
- Thomas J. Wertenbaker. Norfolk, Historic Southern Port (Durham NC, 1931).
- Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Norfolk", Virginia: a Guide to the Old Dominion, American Guide Series, Oxford University Press, OL 24223083M
- Lenoir Chambers (1965). "Notes on Life in Occupied Norfolk, 1862-1865". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 73. JSTOR 4247102.
- Michael Hucles (1992). "Many Voices, Similar Concerns: Traditional Methods of African-American Political Activity in Norfolk, Virginia, 1865-1875". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 100. JSTOR 4249313.
- Thomas C. Parramore (1994). Norfolk: The First Four Centuries. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-1988-1.
- Antonio T. Bly (1998). "Thunder during the Storm-School Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia, 1957-1959: A Local History". Journal of Negro Education 67. JSTOR 2668221.
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