Hampton Springs Hotel

The Hampton Springs Hotel was built in 1908 and was destroyed by fire in 1954. The hotel was world renowned for its sulphur springs and baths known for their healing and medicinal powers. The luxurious hotel boasted lush gardens with ...

Black Plantation / Hampton Campaign

Black PlantationThis area was once part of the 448.5-acre plantation of Alexander Templeton Black (1798-1875), for whom Church Street was renamed Black Street. In 1851 Black deeded land for a right-of-way and depot to the Charlotte & S.C. Railroad. He ...

Hampton (Incorp. Since 1895)

Known for years before 1909 as junction. Central RR of NJ & DL&W railroads met here. Site of extensive machine shops and a huge coal storage facility set up to get nearer the city areas to the east.

Marker is at ...

Hampton House

1890

467-469 Bloomfield Avenue

Late 19th Century Commercial

with Art Moderne Facade

Peter Doremus opened a general merchandise store on this site in 1812. His son, Philip, constructed the present building, adapting his business to a suburban clientele. Town offices were once located on ...

New Hampton

Early taverns near the Musconetcong River Crossings

served travelers between Trenton and the Oxford furnaces. Birthplace of Daniel Morgan, one of Washington’s Generals.

Marker is on Musconetcong River Road, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Wade Hampton

of South Carolina was wounded here on July 21, 1861.

Battle of First Manassas

(Bull Run)

Marker can be reached from Sudley Road (State Road 234) 0.4 miles south of Lee Highway (U.S. 29), on the right when traveling north.

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Accomac County / Northampton County

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Accomac County

Area 502 Square Miles

The Eastern Shore was first known as the Kingdom of Accomac, for an indian tribe. Accomac was one of the original shires formed in 1634. The name was changed to Northampton in 1643. In ...

Northampton County Court Green

The Northampton County Court Green is one of the earliest and most complete in Virginia. It includes outstanding examples of early court buildings as well as later structures reflecting the continuity of government in Eastville for well over 300 years. ...

Bank of Hampton

(Front text)

The Bank of Hampton, built in 1892, was the first bank organized in Hampton and an important part of the rapid growth and development of the county seat from the 1890s to the mid-1920s. It was designed by ...

John Hampton House / Early Stone House

John Hampton House

Earliest surviving stone house in city. Built before 1840, it is constructed of patterned river limestone with jack arches over windows and doors. The builder, John Hampton, was a tavern owner and operator in the county by 1818. ...