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From 1,800 persons in 1782, the total population of free blacks in Virginia increased to 12,766 (4.3 percent of blacks) in 1790, and to 30,570 in 1810; the percentage change was from free blacks' comprising less than one percent of the total black population in Virginia, to 7.2 percent by 1810, even as the overall population increased. [105]
1902 - First Baptist Church (Newport News, Virginia) moves to middle of 29th street; 1904 – U.S. Custom House and Post Office built. [7] 1906 – Buxton Hospital established. [7] 1907 - First Baptist Church (Newport News, Virginia) rebuilt after fire the previous year; 1908 Virginia State School for Colored Deaf and Blind Children opens. [2]
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The Old Cape Henry Light, completed in 1792, was the first federal construction project under the United States Constitution. The history of Virginia Beach, Virginia, goes back to the Native Americans who lived in the area for thousands of years before the English colonists landed at Cape Henry in April 1607 and established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown a few weeks later.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Great Indian Warpath had a branch that led from present-day Lynchburg to present-day Richmond.; By 1607, Chief Powhatan had inherited the so known as the chiefdom of about 4–6 tribes, with its base at the Fall Line near present-day Richmond and with political domain over much of eastern Tidewater Virginia, an area known to the Powhatans as "Tsenacommacah."
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The following is a timeline of the history of the census-designated place (CDP) of Great Falls, Virginia, USA. [ 1 ] This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.