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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E4Q_francis-drake-free-black-barber_Norfolk-VA.html
Francis Drake, Free Black Barber. . Francis Drake, a slave barber, was the first black to gain his freedom in post-Revolutionary War Norfolk after a 1782 Act of the Virginia General Assembly authorized "any person...to emancipate and set free…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E4N_st-josephs-catholic-church-school_Norfolk-VA.html
St. Joseph's Catholic Church & School. . St. Joseph's Parrish was established for Norfolk's African Americans by the Josephite Order in September 1889, with a place of worship and a school for students from elementary grades through high school. I…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E4L_col-samuel-leroy-slover-1873-1959_Norfolk-VA.html
Col. Samuel Leroy Slover (1873-1959). . Tennessee native Samuel L. Slover established himself in Norfolk in 1905 as co-owner of the Public Ledger, a local newspaper. He later controlled six of Virginia's most influential newspapers, Including the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BQY_east-main-street_Norfolk-VA.html
The portion of East Main Street between Commercial Place and Church Street (now St. Paul's Boulevard) was notorious with servicemen all over the world until well after World War II. The district was home to taverns such as the Krazy Kat and Red Ro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM296U_cedar-grove-cemetery_Norfolk-VA.html
Cedar Grove was Norfolk's first public cemetery, established in January 1825 after a Borough ordinance aimed at curbing yellow fever decreed that the "burying of the dead in lots lying on public and populous streets is ... injurious to the he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2936_west-point-cemetery_Norfolk-VA.html
This historically African American burial place, first known as Potter's Field, was established as Calvary Cemetery in 1873 and renamed West Point Cemetery in 1885. James E. Fuller, Norfolk's first African American councilman, secured a section fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM292O_west-point-cemetery_Norfolk-VA.html
West Point Cemetery was Norfolk's first municipal cemetery for African Americans, after an 1827 ordinance provided for their interment in a section of Potter's Field just north of the borough limits. The section was set off exclusively for the bur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24YV_plummer-bernard-young-sr-1884-1962_Norfolk-VA.html
North Carolina native Plummer Bernard (P.B.) Young moved to Norfolk in 1907 to work at the Lodge Journal and Guide, the newspaper of an African American fraternal organization. He bought the paper in 1910, expanded its scope, and renamed it the Jo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IM_the-cannonball-trail_Norfolk-VA.html
Follow the Cannonball Trail through 400 years of Norfolk and American history. The Trail winds along the shoreline of the Elizabeth River and through the districts of downtown Norfolk. Walk the cobbled streets of West Freeman - the earliest reside…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZAM_pauline-adams_Norfolk-VA.html
Pauline Adams, a native of Ireland who immigrated to the United States in her youth, was a woman's rights activist who advocated a militant approach to the campaign for suffrage. The Equal Suffrage League of Norfolk was formed at her house in Ghen…