Hampton Historic Site

Hampton National Historic Site records more than two centuries of economic and social change in the Chesapeake region. The Ridgely family began acquiring land north of Baltimore before the Revolutionary War, but only after American independence did Hampton become a ...

National Historic Landmark-Hampton Plantation

National Historic Landmark-Hampton Plantation

Erected in 1735, enlarged in 1757 and again in 1791, this building evolved from a modest frame structure built by a Huguenot settler into a large Georgian county house.

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National Historic Landmark - Hampton Institute

Founded by the American Missionary Association to train selected young Black men and women to "teach and lead their people, first by example...." Hampton Normal and Industrial Institute opened in April 1868 with 2 teachers and 15 students; today, it ...

Hampton Heights Historic District

Located one block west, this historic district was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 because of its historical and architectural significance as an example of an intact early twentieth-century neighborhood. A number of popular architectural styles ...

Historic Hampton

The Native American village of Kecoughtan stood across the Hampton River in 1607. Soon after the English forcibly removed the inhabitants in 1610, the colonists settled there and the village grew. By the early eighteenth century, the royal customhouse, wharves, ...