National Historic Landmark-Drydock Number One, Norfolk Naval Shipyard

The shipyard, established in 1767, is the oldest in the country; the drydock was constructed 1827-1834. During the Civil War, the Union frigate USS MERRIMACK was rebuilt by the Confederates in this drydock, becoming the ironclad CSS VIRGINIA.

Norfolk Soldiers Monument

[ west face ]

To The Memory Of The

Soldiers From This Town

Who Died For Their Country

In The War Of The Rebellion

Adjt. Samuel C. Barnum Died June 15, 1864.

Lieut. Hiram D. Gaylord Nov. 18, 1863

Corp. Theodore S. Bates Sept. 17, 1862.

Corp. ...

Norfolk

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Norfolk

In the heart of the Green Woods on what was later the Hartford-Albany Turnpike, Norfolk was settled in 1744 by Cornelius Brown of Windsor. The town was incorporated in 1758 with forty-four voters at the first town meeting. ...

The Norfolk Academy

Built 1840 for

The Norfolk Academy

later used as the Town Hall & Jail

Since 1960

The Norfolk Historical

Museum

Marker is at the intersection of Village Green and Greenwoods Road East (U.S. 44), on the right when traveling north on Village Green.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Norfolk World War I Monument

[ south plaque ]

1917 The World War 1918

In honor of those who gave and those

who offered their lives for liberty

the people of Norfolk have built

this monument and crowned it with

The Liberty Bell

in the faith that it will ring the

knell of ...

Naval Aviation Depot, Norfolk

The depot began in 1917 as part of the Naval Air Detachment of six canvas hangers servicing seven seaplanes. Before the depot closed in 1996, its name changed over time from Construction and Repair (1918), Assembly and Repair (1922), Overhaul ...

Norfolk County Almshouse

During the colonial period, the established church cared for the poor as in Great Britain. Beginning in the late 18th century, local governments began to appoint overseers of the poor instead to support indigents with donated funds or house them ...

Norfolk and Western Passenger Station

The David R. and Susan S. Goode Railwalk

Across the tracks and east is N&W’s last passenger station, now home to the Roanoke Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau and O. Winston Link Museum.

The little town of Big Lick changed its name ...

Norfolk and Western Railway

The David R. and Susan S. Goode Railwalk

Today’s Norfolk Southern has a colorful predecessor in both or Roanoke’s railroads. To keep this as simple as possible, we are discussing only the N&W history to its merger with the Southern Railway ...

Old Norfolk Public Library

Norfolk had several libraries for public use during the nineteenth century, among them that of the Norfolk Library Association, organized in 1870. Though designated "public," membership was not free. The fee to use the reading rooms and to check out ...