Timeline of Norfolk, Virginia
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Norfolk, Virginia, United States.
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Prior to 1800s
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- 1682 - Norfolk Town founded.[1]
- 1728 - Norfolk Academy chartered.
- 1736 - Town of Norfolk attains borough status.[2]
- 1739 - Saint Paul's Episcopal Church built.
- 1767 - Gosport Shipyard established near Norfolk.
- 1776 - January 1: Burning of Norfolk.[2]}[3]
- 1790 - Population: 2,959.[4]
- 1795 - Fort Norfolk built.
- 1799 - Fire.[2]
1800s
- 1804 - Female Orphan Society founded.[2]
- 1819 - U.S. Customhouse built.[2]
- 1828 - Christ Church built.
- 1840 - Population: 10,920.[4]
- 1845 - Norfolk attains city status.[2]
- 1848 - Norfolk Humane Association active.[5]
- 1850
- Norfolk Courthouse built.[2]
- Freemason Street Baptist Church dedicated.
- 1853 - "Negro free school"[2] and Elmwood Cemetery established.
- 1854 - Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery established.
- 1855 - Yellow fever outbreak.[1]
- 1857 - U.S. Customhouse built on Main Street.[2]
- 1858
- Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad laid out.[2]
- Basilica of Saint Mary built.
- 1862 - May 10: Union forces in power.[2][6]
- 1865 - Colored Monitor Union Club formed.[7]
- 1870 - Norfolk Library Association founded.[8]
- 1873 - West Point Cemetery established.
- 1875 - Masonic Temple built.[2]
- 1877 - Norfolk and Portsmouth Cotton Exchange incorporated.[9]
- 1880 – Population: 21,966.[4]
- 1887 - Brambleton becomes part of Norfolk.[10]
- 1888 - St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church built.
- 1890
- Atlantic City becomes part of Norfolk.[10]
- Population: 34,871.[4]
- 1894 - Norfolk Daily Pilot newspaper begins publication.[11]
- 1898 - Monticello Hotel in business.
1900s
- 1900
- Zoo opens.[12]
- U.S. Post Office and Courts Building constructed.
- Population: 34,871.[4]
- 1901 - Norfolk Journal and Guide newspaper in publication.[13]
- 1902 - Park Place becomes part of Norfolk.[10]
- 1904 - Freemason Street Library opens.[8]
- 1906 - Berkley becomes part of Norfolk.[1]
- 1907
- Jamestown Exposition held.[1]
- Confederate monument erected.[2]
- Monticello Arcade built.
- 1910
- Christ and St. Luke's Church built.
- Population: 67,452.[4]
- 1911 - Huntersville and Lambert's Point become part of Norfolk.[10]
- 1912 - Norfolk Terminal Station built.
- 1917 - U.S. Naval Operating Base[2] and NAACP branch[14] established.
- 1918 - Southern Bagging Company building constructed.
- 1919
- City-manager form of government adopted.[2]
- Attucks Theatre opens.
- 1920 – Population: 115,777.[4]
- 1921 - Virginia Beach Boulevard opens.
- 1922 - U.S. Marine Hospital built.[2]
- 1923 - Algonquin Park, Cottage Park, Edgewater, Kenilworth, Lafayette Annex, Lakewood, Larchmont, Lenox, Morning Side, Norfolk Naval Base, Ocean View (part), and Willoughby become part of city.[10]
- 1930
- College of William & Mary Norfolk Division established.
- Population: 129,710.[4]
- 1932 - U.S. Post Office and Courthouse built.
- 1933 - Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences opens.[2]
- 1938 - Norfolk Municipal Airport[15] and Norfolk Azalia Garden open.
- 1940 - Norfolk Housing Authority created.[15]
- 1941 - Merrimack Park dedicated.[15]
- 1948 - Wilders Drive-In cinema in business.[16]
- 1952
- NATO Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic headquartered in Norfolk.[15]
- Norfolk–Portsmouth Bridge–Tunnel opens.[15]
- WRAP-AM radio begins broadcasting.
- 1954 - Azalea Festival begins.[15]
- 1955 - Tanners Creek becomes part of city.[10]
- 1958 - Sister city program established with Moji, Japan.[15]
- 1959
- 1962 - Midtown Tunnel begins operating.
- 1965 - City Hall built.[15]
- 1966 - Virginia Wesleyan College opens.[15]
- 1967
- Virginia Beach-Norfolk Expressway begins operating.[15]
- Virginia National Bank built.
- 1969
- Norfolk State College active.[15]
- Econo-Travel motel in business.
- 1971 - Norfolk Scope conventional hall opens.[15]
- 1974 - Virginia Opera formed.
- 1983 - Waterside shopping centre in business.
- 1987 - Dominion Tower built.
- 1989 - Norfolk Southern Tower built.
- 1990 - Population: 261,229.[4]
- 1993
- Harbor Park stadium opens.
- Bobby Scott becomes U.S. representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district.[18]
- 1994 - Paul D. Fraim becomes mayor.
- 1996 - City website online (approximate date).[19]
- 1998 - Armed Forces Memorial dedicated.[15]
2000s
- 2000 - Cinemark 18 (cinema) in business.[16]
- 2002 - 150 West Main Street built.
- 2003 - NATO Allied Command Transformation headquartered in Norfolk.
- 2010 - Population: 242,803.
See also
- History of Norfolk, Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Norfolk, Virginia
- Timeline of Virginia[20][21]
Other cities in Virginia
- Timeline of Alexandria, Virginia
- Timeline of Richmond, Virginia
- Timeline of Virginia Beach, Virginia
References
- 1 2 3 4 Britannica 1910.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Federal Writers' Project 1941.
- ↑ Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- ↑ Deal 2011.
- ↑ Chambers 1965.
- ↑ Hucles 1992.
- 1 2 Peggy Haile McPhillips. "History of the Norfolk Public Library Timeline". Norfolk Public Library. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
- ↑ Lamb 1888.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Norfolk Public Library. "List of Norfolk & Portsmouth City Annexations". Retrieved August 12, 2014.
- ↑ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
- ↑ Vernon N. Kisling, Jr., ed. (2001). "Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
- ↑ American Newspaper Annual, N. W. Ayer & Son, 1921
- ↑ H. Lewis Suggs (1983). "Black Strategy and Ideology in the Segregation Era: P. B. Young and the Norfolk Journal and Guide, 1910-1954". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 91. JSTOR 4248629.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Norfolk Public Library. "Chronology of Norfolk". Retrieved August 12, 2014.
- 1 2 "Movie Theaters in Norfolk, VA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
- ↑ "Notable dates in Virginia history". Virginia Historical Society. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
- ↑ "Virginia". Official Congressional Directory. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1993.
- ↑ "City of Norfolk: Official Web Site". Archived from the original on December 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Notable dates in Virginia history". Virginia Historical Society.
- ↑ Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Virginia", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via Hathi Trust
Bibliography
- Published in the 1800s
- Forest, ed. (1851). Norfolk Directory – via Norfolk Public Library.
- H. W. Burton (1877), History of Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk Virginian
- Robert W. Lamb, ed. (1888). Our Twin Cities of the Nineteenth Century (Norfolk and Portsmouth). Barcroft.
- Norfolk; the Marine Metropolis of Virginia. Norfolk, Va.: Geo. I. Nowitzky. 1888.
- Published in the 1900s
- Illustrated Standard Guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth, Norfolk, Va: Standard Lithographing and Publishing Co., 1907
- "Norfolk", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
- Hill's Norfolk and Portsmouth (Virginia) City Directory. 1931 – via Norfolk Public Library.
- Thomas J. Wertenbaker. Norfolk, Historic Southern Port (Durham NC, 1931).
- Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Norfolk", Virginia: a Guide to the Old Dominion, American Guide Series, Oxford University Press, OL 24223083M
- Lenoir Chambers (1965). "Notes on Life in Occupied Norfolk, 1862-1865". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 73. JSTOR 4247102.
- Michael Hucles (1992). "Many Voices, Similar Concerns: Traditional Methods of African-American Political Activity in Norfolk, Virginia, 1865-1875". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 100. JSTOR 4249313.
- Thomas C. Parramore (1994). Norfolk: The First Four Centuries. University of Virginia Press. ISBN 978-0-8139-1988-1.
- Antonio T. Bly (1998). "Thunder during the Storm-School Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia, 1957-1959: A Local History". Journal of Negro Education. 67. JSTOR 2668221.
- Published in the 2000s
- John G. Deal (2011). "Middle-Class Benevolent Societies in Antebellum Norfolk, Virginia". In Jonathan Daniel Wells; Jennifer R. Green. The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 84–104. ISBN 978-0-8071-3851-9.
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