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U.S. Route 13 to S.R. 184. The Chesapeake Bay impact crater is a buried impact crater, located beneath the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, United States. It was formed by a bolide that struck the eastern shore of North America about 35.5 ± 0.3 million years ago, in the late Eocene epoch. It is one of the best-preserved "wet-target" impact craters in ...
Hampton (/ ˈ h æ m p t ə n /) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The population was 137,148 as of the 2020 census, making it the seventh-most populous city in Virginia. [7] Hampton is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, the 37th-largest in the United States, with a total population of ...
Chapel of the Centurion. Chapel of the Centurion. March 28, 2011. ( #10000582) 134 Bernard Rd., Fort Monroe. 37°00′10″N 76°18′28″W. / 37.002639°N 76.307778°W / 37.002639; -76.307778 ( Chapel of the Centurion) Oldest continually used wooden military structure for religious services in the United States; built in 1858 [6] 5.
Buckroe Beach, Hampton, Virginia. Coordinates: 37°02′35″N 76°17′36″W. The old "Light House" at Buckroe Beach was built as a part of the amusement park . Buckroe Beach is a neighborhood in the independent city of Hampton, Virginia. It lies just north of Fort Monroe on the Chesapeake Bay.
Historic Little England (previously known as the Victoria Boulevard Historic District) is a national historic district located at Hampton, Virginia. The district encompasses 87 contributing buildings in a streetcar suburb originally laid out in 1888. The primarily residential district includes notable examples of the Queen Anne and Colonial ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
1715 – Hampton designated seat of Elizabeth City County. [ 2] 1718 – Head of dead pirate Blackbeard displayed on a pole at place later known as " Blackbeard's Point ." [ 2] 1727 – St John’s church was re-built. [ 1] 1755 – "1,000 Acadian" travellers stay temporarily in Hampton. [ 2]
June 6, 2007 [2] Hampton City Hall is a historic city hall located at Hampton, Virginia. It was built in 1938–1939, and is a two-story, concrete building clad in brick veneer and topped with a flat roof surrounded by a parapet in the Art Deco style. In 1962, the building was expanded and converted for use as a Juvenile Courts and Probation ...