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2. Norfolk Naval Shipyard - Wikipedia

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   Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard, often called the Norfolk Navy Yard and abbreviated as NNSY, is a U.S. Navy facility in Portsmouth, Virginia, for building, remodeling and repairing the Navy's ships. It is the oldest and largest industrial facility that belongs to the U.S. Navy as well as the most comprehensive.

3. Slave labor on United States military installations 1799–1863

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   The new federal shipyard was, in reality, the successor to the former State of Virginia Naval Yard, where enslaved labor was a common place, and these practices continued until the Civil War. Norfolk Navy Yard employed many slaves and these enslaved laborers provided their owners with a steady income.

4. George Teamoh - Wikipedia

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   George Teamoh (c. 1818 – after 1887) was born enslaved in Norfolk, Virginia, worked at the Fort Monroe, the Norfolk Naval Yard and other military installations before the American Civil War, escaped to freedom in New York and moved to Massachusetts circa 1853, and returned to Virginia after the war to become a community leader, member of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1868 and ...

5. Andrew Sprowle - Wikipedia

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   Known for. founding Gosport Ship Yard (now Norfolk Naval Shipyard) Andrew Sprowle (1710 – 1776) was a Scottish-born merchant, naval agent, landowner, shipyard owner, slaveholder and slave trader in Portsmouth, Virginia. Today Andrew Sprowle is best remembered for establishing the Gosport Ship Yard, now known as Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

6. John Cassin (naval officer) - Wikipedia

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   Commands held. Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Battles/wars. American Revolutionary War. Battle of Trenton. War of 1812. Spouse (s) Ann Wilcox. Commodore John Cassin (July 16, 1760 – March 24, 1822) was a United States Navy officer, who led the vital defense of Gosport Navy Yard during the War of 1812 and served as its Commandant.

7. USS George Washington (CVN-73) - Wikipedia

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   90 fixed wing and helicopters. USS George Washington ( CVN-73) is a United States Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the sixth carrier in the Nimitz class and the fourth US Navy ship named after George Washington, Founding Father, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and the first president of ...