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Its last voyage under the name West Point was a short trip from Portsmouth to Newport News for reconversion to a passenger liner. There, six days later, it was officially decommissioned, stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 12 March, and transferred to the Maritime Commission's War Shipping Administration .
Hilton Village. / 37.02944°N 76.46083°W / 37.02944; -76.46083. Hilton Village is a planned English-village-style neighborhood in Newport News, Virginia. Recognized as a pioneering development in urban planning, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The neighborhood was built between 1918 and 1921 in response to the ...
SS. Haiti. SS Haiti was a passenger and freight ship built for the Colombian Mail Steamship Company built at Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia and delivered 15 December 1932. [6] The ship was renamed briefly Puerto Rico in 1938 and Monterey in 1939 to operate for the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company until requisitioned ...
In August 2023, the council amended the city’s ordinance on bicycles to include e-bikes, however, this change only meant that e-bikes are required to follow the same rules as regular bicycles.
Coal pier. A coal pier is a transloading facility designed for the transfer of coal between rail and ship. The typical facility for loading ships consists of a holding area and a system of conveyors for transferring the coal to dockside and loading it into the ship's cargo holds. Originally the holding area consisted of a rail yard in which the ...
Collis P. Huntington High School, commonly referred to as just Huntington High School (opened in 1927) was a black high school located in the East End section of Newport News, Virginia, US, during the era of racial segregation. After desegregation, it became an integrated intermediate school (eighth and ninth grades), and in 1981 was converted ...
November 3, 1988. Designated VLR. February 16, 1988 [2] Warwick County Courthouses, also known as the Warwick County Courthouse and Clerk's Office, is a historic courthouse and clerk's office located at Newport News, Virginia. The original courthouse was built in 1810, and is a one-story, three-room, T-shaped plan Federal -style brick building.
Newport News (/ ˌ n uː p ɔːr t-,-p ər t-/) [6] is an independent city in southeastern Virginia, United States.At the 2020 census, the population was 186,247. [5] Located in the Hampton Roads region, it is the fifth-most populous city in Virginia and 140th-most populous city in the United States.