Shrines and Industry on Virginia Peninsula
Newport News and Warwick Hampton form a waterfront stretch where a shipyard dominates industry while nearby fields recall Civil War histories. The area anchors the nation’s largest coal port, loading 24 million tons in 1956, with 200 miles of tracks and the world’s largest coal bin.
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Newport News
Lower
Virginia Peninsula
America
Warwick
Hampton
Williamsburg
Jamestown
Yorktown
Collis P. Huntington
Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co
Ft. Monroe
Big Bethel
Christopher Newport
Captain Newport
Mariners museum acres park in Warwick Virginia
In a 700 acre wooded park in Warwick a 1930 stucco building houses Archer Huntington’s 45000 marine antiquities. The Hampton Roads harbor area recalls the Monitor and Merrimac battle, March 9 1862, and Fort Monroe’s historic ties including Jefferson Davis’ 1865 imprisonment.
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Warwick
Seven Seas
Archer Huntington
Virginia
Chesapeake Avenue
Newport News
Hampton
Hampton Roads
U.S. Navy
Monitor
Merrimac
Stormy May Foreseen by Weather Service
Stormy weather is forecast for most of the country in May based on the Weather Bureau 30 day outlook. Temperatures are expected to run below normal north of the Rocky Mountains and above normal along the West Coast, Gulf and Atlantic states with near normal in unspecified areas. Precipitation should meet or exceed normals in most regions, with large weekly temperature swings and frequent clashes of air masses.
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Suitland
Weather Bureau
Rocky
Appalachian Mountains
West Coast
South Atlantic
New England
Pacific
Gulf
Riley and Lovett Appointed Admiral Homes Dealers
Leonard Riley and B. J. Lovett operating as Riley & Lovett named authorized dealers for Admiral Homes in the area. They offer factory built ranch, split level, cape cod, 1 and 2 story models plus Ranch Plank Cottage line for mountain and riverside resorts. Their new office is at 198 Cameron Street and they will showcase at the Home Show on May 8 9 and 19.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Riley
B. J. Lovett
Riley
Crusade for Freedom Drive Amid Cold War Pressures
A plea urges readers to support Radio Free Europe with donations to fund transmitters and announcers behind the Iron Curtain. The message frames the effort as a private American initiative requiring public financial help via local postmasters.
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Europe
Radio Free Europe
Amera
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Contrasts
Anoohor
Peninsula
Ipreserves
Fort Monroe
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Sawyer
Washington
Jackson Twins
By Science Service
Riley and Lovett
Admiral Homes
Big Sister
Lever
Miss Beth
Beetle Bailey
U. S. Patent Office
Carrie
Aunt Beth
Muggs and
Skeeter
U.S. Patent Office
BY Dick Brooks
BY Bob Naylor
Beth
Mort Walker
Joel
BY Wally Bishof
Junior
Wes
Henry
Patent Office
By Carl Anderson
Blondie
Chic Young
Secret Agent X-9
BY Mel Graf
Frank
Smalts
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