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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L3B_surveying-the-land-sea_Norfolk-VA.html
President Thomas Jefferson founded the Survey of the Coast in 1807. This federal agency was charged with supporting maritime commerce by providing accurate surveys and nautical charts of our coastal waters. It was dangerous and sometimes deadly wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CYC_norfolk-college-for-young-ladies_Norfolk-VA.html
On this site was the Norfolk College for Young Ladies, which was chartered on February 20, 1880 with Capt. John L. Roper as President of the Board. The school was designed by James H Calrow, one of Norfolk's leading architects at the time. It open…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CF5_norfolk-1682_Norfolk-VA.html
Town Point is where Norfolk began. In 1680 the General Assembly of his Majesty's Colony of Virginia enacted a law requiring each county to establish and develop a town site. In lower Norfolk County fifty acres of land at the entrance of the Easter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18KF_uss-kearsarge-cv-33_Norfolk-VA.html
USS Kearsarge, scheduled to depart for the Mediterranean Sea on June 1, 1948, was anchored off Naval Station, Norfolk in anticipation of an early morning departure.
Sailors and Marines returning to the ship the night of May 31 encountered heavy…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM185P_willoughby-baylor-house-1794_Norfolk-VA.html
This site was in the original Crown grant of 200 acres to Colonel Thomas Willoughby in 1636. Located on Freemason Street, so called because the Norfolk Royal Exchange Lodge of Masons erected the "Mason's Hall" on this site in 1764 as America's fir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWPI_the-bastion-cannons_Victoria-BC.html
You are standing at the entrance to Bastion SquareBastion Square is a legacy of Fort Victoria whose two log towers or "Bastions" were located near here.The Hudson's Bay Company, which remains as a store across the street, built the fort in 1843 in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWPH_uss-nimitz-cvn-68_Norfolk-VA.html
On the night of May 25, 1981, while operating off the Florida coast, a twin engine EA-6B jet aircraft crashed into the flight deck of USS Nimitz CVN-68, killing 14 crewmembers and injuring 45 others. Nimitz pulled into port, had its catapults repa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWKX_uss-iowa-bb-61_Norfolk-VA.html
On the morning of April 19, 1989, USS Iowa (BB-61) was underway north of Puerto Rico conducting routine training exercises when the #2 16" gun turret exploded, killing 47 men working within its steel-encased bulkheads.
"They were just men with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWKW_the-pentagon_Norfolk-VA.html
About 9:30 a.m., September 11, 2001, a hijacked commercial airliner was deliberately crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia killing 35 active duty, retired and reserve naval personnel, along with other military personnel and innocent civ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWKV_uss-newport-news-ca-148_Norfolk-VA.html
At 0100 hours on October 1, 1972, the USS Newport News was firing a support mission off the coast of South Vietnam. An 8 inch projectile jammed in the center gun of Turret Two. The subsequent implosion and fire killed 20 crewmembers and injured 36…