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Confederate Memorial Chapel is a historic interdenominational memorial chapel located in Richmond, Virginia. Dedicated on May 8, 1887, it is a white frame, Gothic Revival style structure with a clipped gable roof of grey tin and a belfry. The funds to build the chapel, which totaled $4,000, were raised by private citizens, veterans, and through ...
The Chapel of the Centurion is the oldest continually used wooden military structure for religious services in the United States. [4] It is located inside Fort Monroe, a former military installation located in Hampton, Virginia.
Hampton National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of Hampton, Virginia. It encompasses 27.1 acres (11.0 ha), and as of 2014, had over 30,000 interments. There are two separate parts to this facility. The original cemetery is called the "Hampton Section" and is located on Cemetery Road in Hampton, VA.
Location of Hampton in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampton, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Hampton, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties ...
Virginia Christian (August 15, 1895 – August 16, 1912) was a child executed in the United States. Christian, an intellectually disabled black maid, was convicted of the murder of her employer Ida Belote, a 51-year-old white woman, in her home at Hampton on March 18, 1912.
The money was raised and the chapel opened in 1879. Students from Hampton Institute not only designed but built the school house. The work was overseen by William Armstrong. [4] [5] By 1886, the chapel had become self-supporting and had grown from three to seventy children. The children of the chapel participated in missionary work for the ...
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 ...
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.