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  2. 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 ...

  3. Virginia Port Authority - Wikipedia

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    Portsmouth Marine Terminal (PMT) at Portsmouth, Virginia; Newport News Marine Terminal (NNMT) at Newport News, Virginia; Virginia International Gateway (VIG) at Portsmouth, Virginia; and one intermodal container transfer facility : Virginia Inland Port (VIP) at Front Royal, Virginia

  4. Collis P. Huntington High School - Wikipedia

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    Collis P. Huntington High School, commonly referred to as just Huntington High School (opened in 1927) was a black high school located in the East End section of Newport News, Virginia, US, during the era of racial segregation. After desegregation, it became an integrated intermediate school (eighth and ninth grades), and in 1981 was converted ...

  5. 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.

  6. Newport News Middle Ground Light - Wikipedia

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    Newport News Middle Ground Light. /  36.94500°N 76.39167°W  / 36.94500; -76.39167. 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.

  7. Peninsula Extension - Wikipedia

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    The Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway led to Hampton Roads at Newport News, Virginia where West Virginia coal was loaded aboard colliers and shipped worldwide. The Peninsula Extension which created the Peninsula Subdivision of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) was the new railroad line on the Virginia Peninsula from ...

  8. USS Southland - Wikipedia

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    17 ft 9 in (5.41 m) Speed. 15 knots. Armament. 1 × 12-pounder. The USS Southland (IX-168) was built in 1908 at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company as the SS Southland. The small steamer operated for the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, transporting ...

  9. Syvasky Poyner - Wikipedia

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    Date apprehended. February 4, 1984. Syvasky Lafayette Poyner (April 7, 1956 – March 18, 1993) was an American rapist and spree killer who killed four women and a teenage girl during a series of armed robberies in Hampton, Virginia in 1984. Convicted of multiple counts of capital murder and condemned to death, Poyner was executed in 1993.

  10. The Apprentice School - Wikipedia

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    The Apprentice School is a four to eight-year apprenticeship vocational school founded in 1919 and operated by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company in Newport News in the U.S. state of Virginia. The school trains students for careers in the shipbuilding industry.

  11. USS Lancaster Eagle - Wikipedia

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    Year. 1880-1881. Dimensions. 19'4" (wingspan) X 10' (height) Location. The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, Virginia. The USS Lancaster Eagle is a figurehead that was carved in 1880-1881 by John Haley Bellamy for the USS Lancaster. [1] [2] The eagle is currently owned by and displayed at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia. [3]