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C & O Railway Company's New Coal Pier
No full textPier number 9 was constructed in the year 1892. This is a high level coal pier designed to overturn the coal cars
Curtiss Aviation School
No full textThe Curtiss Flying School was located at the point of Newport News next to the Small Boat Harbor. It was established in 1914. The school closed in 1922. The school was under the direction of Captain Thomas Scott Baldwin, a former balloon explorer
New City Hospital
No full textThis hospital opened in 1916 under the name Newport News General and Non-Sectarian Hospital. The name was changed to Riverside Hospital. The new hospital was financed by the City of Newport News, Citizens of Newport News and the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. It was located on Huntington Avenue and 50th Street
C & O Railroad Station, Pier and Elevator
No full textThe C & O Passenger Station and Pier were built in 1892. On the right stands Grain Elevator A. This elevator was built in 1883 with a capacity of 1.5 million bushels. Elevator A burned down in 1915
Washington Avenue, Looking South
No full textA southern view of Newport News' major business district. In the foreground to the right is the First National Bank Building. On the second floor is a window with a sign indicating it as the law office of S. Otis Bland. The address being 2717 Washington Avenue. Schuyler Otis bland was a local attorney who served as a U.S. Congressman for the Newport News area from 1918 to his death on February 16, 1950. He was interred in Greenlawn Cemetery
Narrative within Souvenir of Newport News, VA
No full textThis is the narrative included on the inside of the back cover to this booklet of postcards
New West Avenue Residential Section
No full textWest Avenue was named after George B. West, a local business man. Mr. West's family owned a great deal of farmland in the area that became downtown Newport News. In 1929 the Newport News Public Library building was built on this Avenue. The Library is there to this day under the name of West Avenue Library
Shipyard, Showing Three Dry Docks
No full textThis is an image of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company during World War I. The shipyard was started in 1886 by Collis P. Huntington
Battle of Dam No.1 (Lee's Mills)
No full textSeries of four digital photographs of the remains of earthworks constructed by Confederate troops under General John Bankhead Magruder. At this site on April 16, 1862 the Battle of Dam No.1 was fought by federal troops under the command of Brigadier-General William F. "Baldy" Smith
Lee's Mill
No full textSeries of three photographs of the remains of earthworks defending the Warwick River at Lee's Mill