Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sewells Point is a peninsula of land in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia in the United States, located at the mouth of the salt-water port of Hampton Roads.Sewells Point is bordered by water on three sides, with Willoughby Bay to the north, Hampton Roads to the west, and the Lafayette River to the south.
Map of Sewell's Point Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. As part of the Union blockade of Chesapeake Bay during the American Civil War, the Union gunboat USS Monticello, commanded by Captain Henry Eagle with Lieutenant (later Rear Admiral) Daniel L. Braine second in command, exchanged cannon fire with Confederate batteries on Sewell's Point ...
Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, that is the headquarters and home port of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Forces Command.The installation occupies about 4 miles (6.4 km) of waterfront space and 11 miles (18 km) of pier and wharf space of the Hampton Roads peninsula known as Sewell's Point.
Aerial Reconnaissance · Virginia · United States · Maps · Sewells Point · Sewells Point (Va.) Licensing This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.
The state highway follows Chesapeake Boulevard to a six-way intersection with Norview Avenue and Sewells Point Road. SR 194 heads south as Sewells Point Road and north as Chesapeake Boulevard; westbound Norview Avenue and northbound Sewells Point Road are unnumbered streets. SR 247 continues east along four-lane divided Norview Avenue.
The state highway heads north as two-lane undivided Sewells Point Road. North of a grade crossing of a Norfolk Southern rail line, SR 194 expands to a five-lane road with a center left-turn lane at Azalea Garden Road. The state highway passes through the Elmhurst neighborhood to a six-way intersection with Norview Avenue and Chesapeake Boulevard.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
SR 194 north (Sewell's Point Road) 12.12: 19.51: US 13 south / SR 165 north (North Military Highway) to I-64 – Airport, Botanical Garden: South end of concurrencies with US 13 and SR 165: 12.38: 19.92: SR 165 south (Kempsville Road) North end of concurrency with SR 165: 13.00: 20.92