WebSouth Hampton Roads is home to several United States military bases.. City of Portsmouth. Norfolk Naval Shipyard is located in Portsmouth, as are the Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, two historic and important facilities, as well as several smaller facilities.The shipyard was founded as the Gosport Shipyard on November 1, 1767, and …

WebThe Hampton Roads Conference was a peace conference held between the United States and representatives of the unrecognized breakaway Confederate States on February 3, 1865, aboard the steamboat River Queen in Hampton Roads, Virginia, to discuss terms to end the American Civil War.President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. …

WebVirginian jurisdictions most commonly associated with the Hampton Roads metropolitan area The following is a list of notable people who were born, raised, or closely associated with the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. Contents 1 Chesapeake 2 Hampton 3 Newport News 4 Norfolk 5 Portsmouth 6 Suffolk 7 Virginia Beach 8 Williamsburg 9 York County 10 …

WebThe Battle of Hampton Roads, also referred to as the Battle of the Monitor and Virginia (rebuilt and renamed from the USS Merrimack) or the Battle of Ironclads, was a naval battle during the American Civil War.. It was fought over two days, March 8–9, 1862, in Hampton Roads, a roadstead in Virginia where the Elizabeth and Nansemond rivers meet the …

WebHampton Hill (initially known as "New Hampton") is a district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames to the south of Twickenham, bounded by Fulwell and Twickenham Golf Courses to the northwest; the road bridge over the railway line; a line southward just east of Wellington Road; Bushy Park to the southeast; and the artificial Longford River to …

WebThe Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel (HRBT) is a 3.5-mile (5.6 km)-long Hampton Roads crossing for Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 60.It is a four-lane facility comprising bridges, trestles, man-made islands, and tunnels under the main shipping channels for Hampton Roads harbor in the southeastern portion of Virginia in the United States.. It connects the …

WebThe Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island.It is the easternmost town in the state of New York. At the time of the 2020 United States census, it had a total population of 28,385.. The town includes the village of East Hampton, as well as the hamlets of Montauk, …

WebWade Hampton Sides (born 1962) is an American historian, author and journalist. He is the author of Hellhound on His Trail, Ghost Soldiers, Blood and Thunder, On Desperate Ground, and other bestselling works of narrative history and literary non-fiction.. Sides is editor-at-large for Outside magazine and has written for such periodicals as National Geographic, …

WebThe highway system of the United States is a network of interconnected state, U.S., and Interstate highways. Each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands own and maintain a part of this vast system, including U.S. and Interstate highways, which are not owned or …

WebNewport News (/ ˌ nj uː p ɔːr t-,-p ər t-/) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia.At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the 5th most populous city in Virginia and 140th most populous city in the United States.. Newport News is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is at the …