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Kempsville is a borough in the City of Virginia Beach, Virginia, a historic section with origins in US colonial times located in the former Princess Anne County. In modern times, it is a community within the urbanized portion of the independent city of Virginia Beach, the largest city in Virginia .
Kempsville High School opened its doors to students in 1924. The present building, which opened in 1966, is the third building to have the name Kempsville High School. From 1959 until 1966, students living in the Kempsville area attended Princess Anne High School. In 1966, when the growth of the city required the construction of neighborhood ...
The Battle of Kemp's Landing, also known as the Skirmish of Kempsville, was a skirmish in the American Revolutionary War that occurred on November 15, 1775. Militia companies from Princess Anne County in the Province of Virginia assembled at Kemp's Landing to counter British troops under the command of Virginia's last colonial governor, John Murray, Lord Dunmore, that had landed at nearby ...
Pleasant Hall is a historic home located in Kempsville section of Virginia Beach, Virginia. Built in 1769, it is a two-story, five-bay, double pile Georgian style brick dwelling. It is topped by a shallow gable roof and has two wide interior-end chimney stacks with corbeled caps. [3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in ...
Kempsville is a historic home located near Shacklefords, Gloucester County, Virginia. It was built about 1787, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, four-bay, gable roofed brick dwelling. with a single pile, central passage plan. It has a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wing and rear ell. It features T-shaped chimneys. [3]
County of Princess Anne is a former county in the British Colony of Virginia and the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States, first incorporated in 1691. The county was merged into the city of Virginia Beach [ 1 ] on January 1, 1963, ceasing to exist.
In the years that followed, however, many families moved to the area that we know today as "Kempsville." In 1842, the parish was reorganized to accommodate these new outlying communities and a new church, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, was built in Kempsville. Soon after Emmanuel Church was completed, Old Donation was abandoned for services.
The term Training School was used, as it was presumed that blacks could not be educated, merely trained as laborers. Over time, the black community repudiated the term training school, and changed the name to Union Kempsville High School in 1961. When the public schools were integrated in 1969, Union Kempsville was closed. [3]