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Many county seats are politically not a part of the counties they serve; under Virginia law, all municipalities incorporated as cities are independent cities and are not part of any county. Some of the cities in the Hampton Roads area, including Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton, and Suffolk were formed from an entire county ...
In the 21st century, Lee Hall Depot (no longer in use) is the only surviving C&O structure of its type on the Lower Peninsula.It is the only survivor among five stations which were located in Warwick County, the others formerly located at Oriana, Oyster Point, Morrison, and Newport News.
City Center at Oyster Point. City Center at Oyster Point is a business district in the Oyster Point section of Newport News, Virginia.It is a 52-acre (210,000 m 2) high density mixed-use development that has 230,000 sq ft (21,000 m 2). of Retail Shops and Restaurants and 1,000,000 sq ft (100,000 m 2). of Class A office space.
As the Newport News area developed in the early 20th century, part of Denbigh was sold to Mennonites, who continued to farm the land, as well as constructed a dairy and began residential development. Following World War II, Warwick County was reincorporated as Warwick City in 1952, then merged into the City of Newport News in 1958.
Port Warwick is a new project located in the Oyster Point area in Newport News, Virginia. It is a mixed-use new urbanism development built upon a 150-acre (0.61 km 2) parcel. Port Warwick is a pedestrian-oriented community and the second-largest planned community in Newport News other than Kiln Creek. Residents can walk from home to their ...
Lee Hall was dropped from the Colonial, now renamed to New England Express, in April 1995, [13] after which, the building was used as a railcar maintenance facility. The Lee Hall Train Station Foundation was founded in 2000 to help preserve the building; due to this, the Peninsula Model Railroad Club moved out of the building in 2001.
The MMMBT, completed in 1992, provided a third major vehicle crossing of the Hampton Roads harbor area, supplementing the Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel which carries I-64 between the independent cities of Hampton and Norfolk (1957), and the James River Bridge connecting the independent city of Newport News and Isle of Wight County in the South ...
Newport News Middle Ground Light is a lighthouse near the Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel (MMMBT) on Interstate 664 in Hampton Roads. [3] [4] [5] It is the oldest caisson lighthouse in Virginia.