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Circa 1800 Federal style house museum, operated by the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society Kilmarnock Museum: Kilmarnock: Lancaster: Chesapeake Bay: Local history [28] King and Queen Courthouse Tavern Museum: King and Queen Court House: King and Queen: Chesapeake Bay: Local history: website, operated by the King and Queen County ...
Port Norfolk Historic District is a national historic district located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It encompasses 621 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a primarily residential section of suburban Portsmouth.
1949 – Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum established. [24] 1950 – Population: 80,039. 1952 – Downtown Tunnel opens. 1955 – Portsmouth Historical Association founded. [24] 1957 – WAVY-TV begins broadcasting. [13] 1960 – Population: 114,773. Portsmouth annexes additional portions of Norfolk County, including ten square miles and 36,000 ...
The New England Colonies of British America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province of New Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies. The New England colonies were part of the Thirteen Colonies and eventually became five of the ...
Wilton House Museum is a museum in a historic house located in Richmond, Virginia. Wilton was constructed c. 1753 by William Randolph III , son of William Randolph II , of Turkey Island . Wilton was originally the manor house on a 2,000-acre (8.1 km 2 ) tobacco plantation known as "World's End" located on the north bank of the James River ...
Volume XL, Nos. 2 and 3. New Series, Volume 3, Nos. 2 and 3 (February and March 1908). Knoblock, Glenn A. "Strong and Brave Fellows", New Hampshire's Black Soldiers and Sailors of the American Revolution, 1775-1784 (2003). Tuveson, Erik R. A People of Color: A Study of Race and Racial Identification in New Hampshire, 1750-1825. Thesis for M.A ...
Portsmouth Olde Towne Historic District, is a national historic district located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It encompasses 89 buildings. It encompasses 89 buildings. It is located in the primarily residential section of Portsmouth and includes a notable collection of Federal and Greek Revival style townhouses, known as "basement houses."
The Phillips House at 34 Chestnut Street, Salem, Massachusetts, owned and operated as a historic house museum by Historic New England and open for public tours. Historic New England currently owns and operates 37 house museums and 1,284 acres of farmland and landscapes across five New England states, representing nearly 400 years of ...