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According to city directories, Frank Darling, a member of his father's oyster firm, president of the streetcar company, vice-president of the Hampton Bank, trustee of the Hampton Institute, founder of the Hampton Fire Department and Dixie Hospital, was the first resident in the area, building his house at 4403 Victoria Boulevard around 1895.
Hampton is served by a variety of radio stations on the AM and FM dials, with towers located around the Hampton Roads area. [72] Hampton is also served by several television stations. The Hampton Roads designated market area (DMA) is the 42nd largest in the U.S. with 712,790 homes (0.64% of the total U.S.). [73]
Fox Hill once known as Rip Raps is an area within the eastern part of Hampton, Virginia. [1] It is mostly a residential community with a few small businesses scattered throughout. Fox Hill is bordered to the south by Phoebus , a neighborhood and former town that was incorporated within the city of Hampton; and Buckroe , a small beachfront ...
Hampton Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Hampton, Virginia. The district encompasses 25 contributing buildings and 7 contributing sites in the central business district of Hampton. The district includes a variety of commercial, residential, institutional, and governmental buildings dating from the late-19th ...
(593 km 2) Wise County: 195: Wise: 1856: From Lee, Scott, and Russell Counties: Henry Alexander Wise, governor of Virginia 35,174: 403 sq mi (1,044 km 2) Wythe County: 197: Wytheville: 1790: From Montgomery County: George Wythe, legal scholar and signer of the Declaration of Independence 28,104: 463 sq mi (1,199 km 2) York County: 199: Yorktown ...
bridgeport.sbo.hampton.k12.va.us Bridgeport Academy is an alternative school in Hampton, Virginia . Established in 2007, the school serves middle and high school students as an alternative education [ 3 ] from regular Hampton City Public Schools .
Hampton City Hall is a historic city hall located at Hampton, Virginia. It was built in 1938–1939, and is a two-story, concrete building clad in brick veneer and topped with a flat roof surrounded by a parapet in the Art Deco style. In 1962, the building was expanded and converted for use as a Juvenile Courts and Probation Office.
At this time there were fewer than 200 hospitals in the entire country. In 1892 the Retreat for the Sick opened the first nursing school in Norfolk. The hospital moved to a new location in 1896 and was renamed Norfolk Protestant Hospital in 1898. The hospital moved again in 1903 and witnessed a fire in 1906, though there were no deaths.