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Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, is the sole designer, builder, and refueler of aircraft carriers and one of two providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more than 800 ships, including both ...
1881–1896: tiny farming village becomes a new city. Newport News was merely an area of farm lands and a fishing village until the coming of the railroad and the subsequent establishment of the great shipyard. As a 16-year-old in 1837, Collis P. Huntington had visited the rural village known as Newport News Point.
Bean was born in the town of Greenwood, Maine, [2] on October 13, 1872, to Benjamin Warren Bean and Sarah (Swett) Bean, [3] one of six sons. According to a grandson of Leon L. Bean, the latter's middle name may have been originally "Linwood" and accidentally changed to "Leonwood". [4]
121-0020. Significant dates. Added to NRHP. December 2, 2002. Designated VLR. September 10, 2003 [2] 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.
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 ...
Newport News Transportation Center. Newport News Victory Arch. Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport. Noland Company Building. North End Historic District (Newport News, Virginia)
The Newport Daily News asked Lopez to give a message to the community in Spanish to include in the article, as her fluency in Spanish and English is critical to how she will tackle her new role as ...
L.L.Bean, Inc. / 43.84944°N 70.10889°W / 43.84944; -70.10889. L.L.Bean is an American privately held retail company that was founded in 1912 by Leon Leonwood Bean. The company, headquartered in the place in which it was founded, Freeport, Maine, specializes in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment.