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  2. History of Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of city nicknames in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The unofficial nicknames listed here have been in use for a long time or have gained wide currency. Bristol – The Birthplace of Country Music (shares this nickname with Bristol, Tennessee) [3] Charlottesville. Cville. So Very Virginia [4] Colonial Beach – Oyster Capital of the Potomac [5] Fredericksburg. America's Most Historic City [6]

  4. Timeline of Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. 1862 – Naval Battle of Hampton Roads fought near Newport News village during the American Civil War. 1880 – Old Dominion Land Company created by Collis Potter Huntington "to secure railway right-of-ways" on the Virginia Peninsula. [1] 1882 – Chesapeake and Ohio Railway begins operating. [2] 1883 – Hotel Warwick in business.

  5. Newport News, Virginia - Wikipedia

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    GNIS feature ID. 1497043 [4] Website. nnva.gov. Newport News ( / ˌnuːpɔːrt -, - pərt -/) [6] is an independent city in southeastern Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. [5] Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the fifth-most populous city in Virginia and 140th-most populous city in the United ...

  6. Template:NewportNewsVA-geo-stub - Wikipedia

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    It uses {}, which is a meta-template designed to ease the process of creating and maintaining stub templates. Usage. Typing {{NewportNewsVA-geo-stub}} produces the message shown at the beginning, and adds the article to the following category: Category:Virginia Peninsula geography stubs (population: 21) General information. This is a stub template.

  7. Newport News Shipbuilding - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Concrete. Newport News-Williamsburg Airport ( IATA: PHF, ICAO: KPHF, FAA LID: PHF) is in Newport News, Virginia, United States, and serves the Hampton Roads area along with Norfolk International Airport in Norfolk. The airport is owned and operated by the Peninsula Airport Commission, a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

  9. Template:NewportNewsVA-NRHP-stub - Wikipedia

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    About this template. This template is used to identify a stub about a property in Newport News, Virginia on the National Register of Historic Places. It uses {}, which is a meta-template designed to ease the process of creating and maintaining stub templates. Usage