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Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both ...
1881–1896: tiny farming village becomes a new city. Newport News was merely an area of farm lands and a fishing village until the coming of the railroad and the subsequent establishment of the great shipyard. As a 16-year-old in 1837, Collis P. Huntington had visited the rural village known as Newport News Point.
Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation was the Army command structure and distributed port infrastructure in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia supporting the movement of personnel and cargo overseas. It had been activated as the Newport News Port of Embarkation in World War I, deactivated, then reactivated on 15 June 1942.
Newport News Public Library was officially opened on October 14, 1929. [5] It was the first building in Newport News built for the purpose of being a library. Over the years the Newport News Public Library Building has been maintained and upgraded. In 1946 the basement of the library was converted into a Children's Library.
Newport News Transportation Center. Newport News Victory Arch. Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport. Noland Company Building. North End Historic District (Newport News, Virginia)
121-0020. Significant dates. Added to NRHP. December 2, 2002. Designated VLR. September 10, 2003 [2] Newport News Middle Ground Light is a lighthouse near the Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel (MMMBT) on Interstate 664 in Hampton Roads. [3] [4] [5] It is the oldest caisson lighthouse in Virginia.
S. Ships built in Newport News, Virginia (296 P) Sports in Newport News, Virginia (6 C, 7 P)
A large crowd of residents from Newport and Middletown gathered inside Innovate Newport’s conference hall on Wednesday to hear discussion on the ban.