Results for Norfolk
Nansemond County / Norfolk County
Nansemond County.
Area 423 Square Miles.Formed in 1...
Landing of Wool and Surrender of Norfolk
Near here Major-General John E. Wool, on May 10, 1862, Lan...
Navy Escort Carriers Based in Norfolk
Navy Escort Carriers based in Norfolk helped win the Battl...
Norfolk Veterans Monument
[ left plaque ]
Korea
1950 ...
Results for Norfolk
Nansemond County / Norfolk County
Nansemond County.
Area 423 Square Miles.Formed in 1637 from New Norfolk County, it was first called Upper Norfolk County, but in 1642 it was named Nansemond for an Indian Tribe. Dismal Swamp is partly in this county.
Norfolk County.
Area 415 ...
Landing of Wool and Surrender of Norfolk
Near here Major-General John E. Wool, on May 10, 1862, Landed with 6000 Union troops. President Lincoln, Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, and Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, watched the movement from a ship in Hampton Roads. ...
Navy Escort Carriers Based in Norfolk
Navy Escort Carriers based in Norfolk helped win the Battle of the Atlantic. They were the smallest, slowest, and most vulnerable of the Navy's aircraft carriers, but as noted World War II historian Samuel Eliot Morison wrote, "These escort carrier ...
Norfolk Veterans Monument
[ left plaque ]
Korea
1950 1953
Anstett, John W. • Barbour, Frederick S. • Bazzano, John C. • Beecher, Casil W., Jr. • Bennett, James A. • Blatz, William A. • Bruey, Lyle D. • Capocefalo, ...