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Norge Train Depot is a historic home located at Norge, near Williamsburg, James City County, Virginia. It was built about 1907 by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from standardized plans. The train station is the last surviving example of a wood frame "informal standard" depot in the six states that were served by Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
The new community of Norge was formally established beginning in 1904 in western James City County by Norwegian Americans and other Scandinavians, with persons resettling from other places in North America joined by new immigrants. Land at Norge was reasonably priced and offered rich farm land in a gentler climate than that of the northern and ...
James City County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 78,254. [ 1 ] Although politically separate from the county, the county seat is the adjacent independent city of Williamsburg . [ 2 ]
In February 2006, the historic Norge railroad station (circa 1908) of the Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) was relocated about 1 mile to a site adjacent to the James City County Branch of the Williamsburg Regional Library (opened in 1996) on Croaker Road. The following month, work was underway to set a new foundation ...
The services of Williamsburg Area Transit Authority are partially funded through rider fares, a form of user fees.The system is also funded by the partner local governments of the City of Williamsburg, James City County, and York County, as well as purchases of services by the College of William and Mary, Surry County, City of Newport News, Virginia, and Colonial Williamsburg, [4] and other ...
Norge Train Depot: Norge Train Depot: May 5, 2009 : 7770 Croaker Rd. Williamsburg: 13: Pinewoods: Pinewoods: November 12, 1971 : 1.4 miles (2.3 km) southwest of the junction of Centerville and Brick Bat Rds.
Carl M. Bergh was born in Søndre Land in Oppland, Norway and was raised in York, Green County, Wisconsin. [2] His wife Kari (1849–1917) was also born in Norway.He had operated a masonry and plaster business in Minnesota and Wisconsin for several years, and had farmed in Kansas and Tennessee for 15 years before coming to Virginia as a land agent for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O).
At the time, it was called the Albemarle Library Society. The Albemarle Library remained open until 1834. Paul Goodloe McIntire donated the resources for a new library in 1919. The first public municipal library opened in 1921. The Colored Branch at Jefferson School, the library's first branch library was open in 1934.