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Newport News is an independent city located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 180,719. in 2013, the population was estimated to be 183,412, making it the fifth-most populous city in Virginia. Newport News is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is at the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the northern shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe’s Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river’s mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads. The area now known as Newport News was once a part of Warwick County. Warwick County was one of the eight original shires of Virginia, formed by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of King Charles I, in 1634. The county was largely composed
of farms and undeveloped land until almost 250 years later. In 1881, 15 years of explosive development began under the leadership of Collis P. Huntington, whose new Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Richmond opened up transportation along the Peninsula and provided a new pathway for the railroad to bring West Virginia bituminous coal to port for coastal shipping and worldwide export. With the new railroad came a terminal and coal piers where the colliers were loaded. Within a few years, Huntington and his associates also built a large shipyard. In 1896, the new incorporated town of Newport News, which had briefly replaced Denbigh as the county seat of Warwick County, had a population of 9,000. In 1958, by mutual consent by referendum, Newport News was consolidated with the former Warwick County (itself a separate city from 1952 to 1958), rejoining the two localities to approximately their pre1896 geographic size. The more widely known name of Newport News was selected as they formed what was then
Virginia’s third largest independent city in population. With many residents employed at the expansive Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding, the joint U.S. Air Force-U.S. Army installation at Joint Base Langley–Eustis, and other military bases and suppliers, the city’s economy is very connected to the military. The location on the harbor and along the James River facilitates
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and began settling the areas adjacent to Hampton Roads. In 1610, Sir Thomas Gates “took possession” of a nearby Native American village, which became known as Kecoughtan. At that time, settlers began clearing land along the James River (the navigable part of which was called Hampton Roads) for plantations, including the present area of Newport News. a large boating industry which can take advantage of its many miles of waterfront. Newport News also serves as a junction between the rails and the sea with the Newport News Marine Terminals located at the East End of the city. Served by major east-west Interstate Highway 64, it is linked to others of the cities of Hampton Roads by the circumferential Hampton Roads Beltway, which crosses the harbor on two bridge-tunnels. Part of the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport is in the city limits.
In 1619, the area of Newport News was included in one of four huge corporations of the Virginia Company of London. It became known as Elizabeth Cittie, and extended west all the way to Skiffe’s Creek (currently the border between Newport News and James City County. Elizabeth Cittie also included all of present-day South Hampton Roads.
By 1634, the English colony of Virginia consisted of a total population of approximately 5,000 inhabitants. It was divided into eight shires of Virginia, which were renamed as counties shortly thereafter. The area of Newport News became part of Warwick River Shire, which became During the 17th century, shortly after Warwick County in 1637. By 1810, the founding of Jamestown, Virginia county seat was at Denbigh. For a short time in 1607, English settlers explored in the mid-19th century, the county seat was World Views Guides
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moved to Newport News. end of Newport News had Newport News was a rural long been established as area of plantations and a an unincorporated town. small fishing village until During Reconstruction, the after the American Civil period after the American War. Construction of the Civil War, the new City railroad and establishment of Newport News was of the great shipyard brought essentially founded by merchant thousands of workers and California associated development. Collis P. Huntington. It was one of only a few Huntington, one of the Big cities in Virginia to be Four associated with the newly established without Central Pacific Railroad, earlier incorporation as a in California, formed the town. (Virginia has had an western part of the country’s Transcontinental independent city political First subdivision since 1871). Railroad. He was recruited Walter A. Post served as by former Confederate General Williams Carter the city’s first mayor. The area which formed Wickham to become a the present-day southern major investor and guiding
light for a southern railroad. He helped complete the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to the Ohio River in 1873. Huntington knew the railroad could transport coal eastbound from West Virginia’s untapped natural resources. His agents began acquiring land in Warwick County in 1865. In the 1880s, he oversaw extension of the C&O’s new Peninsula Subdivision, which extended from the Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond southeast down the peninsula through Williamsburg to Newport News, where the company developed coal piers on the harbor of Hampton Roads. His next project was to develop Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, which became the world’s largest shipyard. Opened as Chesapeake Dry Dock & Construction Company, the shipbuilding was intended to build boats to transition goods from the rails to the seas. With president Theodore Roosevelt’s declaration to create a Great White World Views Guides | 2014
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Fleet, the company entered the warship business by building seven of the first sixteen warships. Today, the shipyard holds a dominant position in the American warship construction business. In addition to Collis, other members of the Huntington family also played major roles in Newport News. From 1912 to 1914, his nephew, Henry E. Huntington, assumed leadership of the shipyard. Huntington Park, developed after World War I near the northern terminus of the James River Bridge, is named for him. Collis Huntington’s son, Archer Milton Huntington and his wife, sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, developed the Mariners’ Museum beginning in 1932. They created a natural park and the community’s Lake Maury in the process. A major feature of Newport News, the Mariners’ Museum has grown to become one of the largest and finest maritime museums in the world.
In 1958, the citizenry of the cities of Warwick and Newport News voted by referendum to consolidate the two cities, choosing to assume the betterknown name of Newport News. The merger created the third largest city by population in Virginia, with a 65 square miles (168 km2) area. The boundaries of the City of Newport News today are essentially the boundaries of the original Warwick River Shire and the traditional one of Warwick County, with the exception of minor border adjustments with neighbors.
the increase in industry and the development of new suburbs both pushed and pulled retail and residential development to the west and north after World War II. Such suburban development was aided by national subsidization of highway construction and was part of a national trend to newer housing.
Despite city efforts at large-scale revitalization, by the beginning of the 21st century the downtown area consisted largely of the coal export facilities, the shipyard, and municipal offices. It is bordered by some harbor-related The city’s original smaller businesses and downtown area, located on lower income housing. the James River waterfront, Newport News grew in changed rapidly from a population from the 1960s farm trading town to a new through the 1990s. The city in the last quarter of the city began to explore New 19th century. Development Urbanism as a way to of the railroad terminal, develop areas midtown. with its coal piers, and City Center at Oyster Point other harbor-related was developed out of a facilities, and the shipyard, small portion of the Oyster all brought new jobs Point Business Park. It and workers to the area. opened in phases from Although fashionable 2003 through 2005. The housing and businesses city invested $82 million developed in downtown, of public funding in the World Views Guides | 2014
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project. Closely following Oyster Point, Port Warwick opened as an urban residential community in the new midtown business district. Fifteen hundred people now reside in the Port Warwick area. It includes a 3-acre (1.2 ha) city square where festivals and events take place. In July 1989 the United States Navy commissioned the third naval vessel named after the City with the entry of the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine USS NEWPORT NEWS (SSN750), built at Newport News Shipbuilding, into active service. The ship was initially commanded by CDR. Mark B. Keef and the City orchestrated a public celebration of the event, which was attended by Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle. In conjunction with this milestone occasion, a song was written by a City native and formally adopted by Newport News City Council in July 1989. The lyrics appear with permission from the Author:(1st verse): Harbor World Views Guides
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of a thousand ships/Forger of a nation’s fleet/Gateway to the New World/Where ocean and river meet/ (chorus):Strength wrought from steel/And a people’s fortitude/Such is the timeless legacy/Of a place called Newport News/(2nd verse):Nestled in a blessed land/Gifted with a special view/Forever home for ev’ry man/With a spirit proud and true/(repeat chorus to fade)
Gum Grove), Newmarket Village, Newsome Park, Oyster Point, Parkview, old North Newport News (Center Ave. area), Port Warwick, Richneck, Riverside, Shore Park, Summerlake, Village Green, Windsor Great Park and Warwick. Some of these neighborhoods are located in the former City of Warwick and Warwick County.
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As with most of Virginia, Newport News is most often associated with the larger American South. People who have grown up in the Hampton Roads area have a unique Tidewater accent which sounds different than a stereotypical Southern accent. Vowels have a longer pronunciation than in a typical southern accent.
Newport News has many distinctive communities and neighborhoods within its boundaries, including Brentwood, City Center, Colony Pines, Christopher Shores-Stuart Gardens, Denbigh, East End, Glendale, Hidenwood, Hilton Village, Hunter’s Glenn, Beaconsdale, Ivy Farms, North End Huntington Heights (Historic District – roughly from 50th to 75th street, along the James River), Jefferson Avenue Park, Kiln Creek, Lee Hall, Menchville, Morrison (also known as Harpersville and
1. Culture
Near the city’s western end, a historic C&O railroad station, as well as American Civil War battle sites near historic Lee Hall along U.S. Route 60 and several 19th century plantations have all been protected.
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Many are located along the roads leading to Yorktown and Williamsburg, where many sites of the Historic Triangle are of both American Revolutionary War and Civil War significance. The first modern duel of ironclad warships, the Battle of Hampton Roads, took place not far off Newport News Point in 1862.
artifacts, uniforms and posters from various periods of American history. Highlights of the Museum’s collection include a section of the Berlin Wall and the outer wall from Dachau Concentration Camp.
as land vehicles, watercraft and rolling stock, including stock from the Fort Eustis Military Railroad. It is officially dedicated to General Frank S. Besson, Jr., who was the first fourstar general to lead the transportation command, and extends over 6 acres (24,000 m2) of land, air and sea vehicles and indoor exhibits. The exhibits cover transportation and its role in US Army operations, including topic areas from the American Revolutionary War through operations in Afghanistan.
The Peninsula Fine Arts Center contains a rotating gallery of art exhibits. The Center also maintains a permanent “Hands on For Kids” gallery designed for children and families to interact in what the Center describes as “a fun, educational environment that encourages The Ferguson Center for participation with art the Arts is a theater and materials and concepts.” concert hall on the campus The U.S. Army of Christopher Newport Transportation Museum University. The complex is a United States fully opened in September Army museum of 2005 and contains three vehicles and other U.S. distinct, separate concert Army transportation- halls: the Concert Hall, the related equipment and Music and Theatre Hall, memorabilia. Located on and the Studio Theatre.
Recovered artifacts from USS Monitor are displayed at the Mariners’ Museum, one of the more notable museums of its type in the world. The Museum’s collection totals approximately 32,000 artifacts, international in scope, which include ship models, scrimshaw, maritime paintings, decorative arts, figureheads and engines. The museum also owns and maintains a 550-acre park on which is located the Noland Trail, and the 167-acre Lake the grounds of Fort Eustis, Maury. The museum reflects The Virginia War Museum the history of the Army, covers American military especially of the United history. The Museum’s States Army Transportation collection includes, Corps, and includes close to weapons, vehicles, 100 military vehicles such
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name art work best of the The city’s golf course also Festival. lies within the Park along The Virginia Living with camping and outdoor Museum is an outdoor activities. There are over living museum combining 30 miles (48 km) of trails aspects of a native wildlife in the Newport News Park park, science museum, complex. The park has a aquarium, botanical 5.3 miles (8.5 km) multipreserve, and planetarium. use bike path. The park offers bicycle and helmet Newport News Parks rental, and requires helmet is responsible for the use by children under 14. maintenance of thirty-two Newport News Park also city parks. The smallest offers an archery range, is less than half an acre disc golf course, and an (2,000 m²). The largest, “aeromodel flying field” Newport News Park, is for remote-controlled 8,065 acres (32.64 km2), aircraft, complete with a the second-largest city 400 ft (120 m) runway. park in the United States. The parks are scattered The city also supplies two throughout the city, from public boat ramps for its Endview Plantation in citizens, Denbigh Park the northern end of the Boat Ramp and Hilton Denbigh city to King-Lincoln Park Pier/Ravine. in the southern end near Park allows access into the the Monitor-Merrimac Warwick River, a tributary Memorial Bridge-Tunnel. of the James River. The parks offer a variety Denbigh Park also offers of services to visitors, a small fishing pier. Hilton ranging from traditional Pier offers a small beach park services like camping at the location of the park and fishing to activities in addition to a Ravine. like archery and disc golf. Croaker and trout are the fish primarily caught Newport News Park is during the summer months located in the northern part and the pier is accessible to of the city of Newport News. visitors in wheelchairs. World Views Guides
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Newport News’s daily newspaper is the Daily Press. Other papers include the Port Folio Weekly, the New Journal and Guide, the Hampton Roads Business Journal, and the James River Journal. Christopher Newport University publishes its own newspaper, The Captain’s Log. Hampton Roads Magazine serves as a bi-monthly regional magazine for Newport News and the Hampton Roads area. Hampton Roads Times serves as an online magazine for all the Hampton Roads cities and counties. Newport News is served by a variety of radio stations on the AM and FM dials, with towers located around the Hampton Roads area. Newport News is also served by several television stations. The Hampton Roads designated market area (DMA) is the 43rd largest in the U.S. with 712,790 homes (0.64% of the total U.S.). The major network television affiliates are WTKR-TV 3 (CBS), WAVY 10 (NBC),
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WVEC-TV 13 (ABC), WGNT 27 (CW), WTVZ 33 (MyNetworkTV), WVBT 43 (Fox), and WPXV 49 (ION Television). The Public Broadcasting Service station is WHROTV 15. Newport News residents also can receive independent stations, such as WSKY broadcasting on channel 4 from the Outer Banks of North Carolina and WGBS-LD broadcasting on channel 11 from Hampton. • Willie Armstead (b. 1952) – former professional football player in the Canadian Football League • Pearl Bailey (1918– 90) – Tony award winning actress and singer • Antoine Bethea (b. 1984) – professional football Strong Safety for the San Francisco 49ers • Larry Bethea (1956– 87) – late professional football player for the Dallas Cowboys • Darryl Blackstock (b. 1983) – professional football player for the Cincinnati Bengals • Aaron Brooks (b. 1976) – former professional World Views Guides
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football quarterback for the Oakland Raiders, land developer • Elton Brown (b. 1982) – former professional football player for the Arizona Cardinals • Joyce Bulifant (b. 1937) – television actress • Robert Cray (b. 1953) – blues guitarist • Will Crutchfield (b. 1957) - opera conductor • Frankie Faison (b. 1949) – film actor • Ella Fitzgerald (1917–96) – jazz singer • The Five Keys – popular soul and doo-wop act in the 1950s; featuring Newport News locals Ripley Ingram, Bernie West, Dickie Threat and Rudy West • Johnny Gilbert (b. 1924) – announcer for the hit television quiz show Jeopardy! • Marques Hagans (b. 1982) – NFL Player • Henry Jordan (1935– 77) – former professional football player for the Green Bay Packers and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame • Richard Kelly (b.
1975) – film director and writer; films include Donnie Darko and Domino, among others • Leroy Keyes (b. 1947) – former professional football running back for the Philadelphia Eagles • J. J. Lankes (1884– 1960) – Woodcut artist, lived for many years in the Hilton Village neighborhood • Kwamie Lassiter (b. 1969) – former football safety for the Arizona Cardinals • Michael Maguire (b. 1955) – Tony awardwinning actor • Queen Esther Marrow (b. 1941) – Soul and Gospel singer • David Macklin (b. 1978) – professional football player for the Washington Redskins • Lightfoot Solomon Michaux (1885-1969) Evangelist, early radio and television pioneer. • J. Clyde Morris – the first executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, former city manager of the City of Warwick
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• Hazel R. O’Leary (b. 1937) – former Secretary of Energy under President Bill Clinton and currently President of Fisk University • Tommy Reamon (b. 1952) – former pro football player and coach. • Austin Roberts (b. 1945) – singer and songwriter • Nick “The Goat”
Thompson (b. 1981) Professional Mixed Martial Arts fighter. Bodog Fight Welterweight Champion • Norm Snead (b. 1939) – former professional football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles • William Styron (1925–2006) – author of The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice • Mike Tomlin (b.
1972) – head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers • Al Toon (b. 1963) – former professional football player for the New York Jets • Marcus Vick (b. 1984) – former NFL player, quarterback for Virginia Tech • Michael Vick (b. 1980) – football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles
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Fort Eustis is a United States Army installation located near Newport News, Virginia. In 2010, it was combined with nearby Langley Air Force Base to form Joint Base Langley– Eustis. The post is the home to the Army Transportation Corps, and also home to the U.S. Army Aviation Logistics School. World Views Guides
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Fort Eustis and its satellite installation, Fort Story, are the home of the U.S. Army Transportation Center, U.S. Army Transportation School, NCO Academy, Army Aviation Logistics School and 7th Sustainment Brigade. Other significant tenants include the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command’s Operations Center (G-3),
Army Training Support Center (ATSC) and the Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD). At Fort Eustis and Fort Story, officers and enlisted soldiers receive education and on-the-job training in all modes of transportation, aviation maintenance, logistics and deployment doctrine and research.
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had just abandoned financial stabilization by Much of the low lying Jamestown to turn their 1612. By 1614, Rolfe land along the James River ships around and go back. owned an interest in a which now constitutes Among those who almost tobacco plantation. That Fort Eustis was known in left was John Rolfe, who same year, he became the colonial times as Mulberry had departed England with husband of Pocahontas. Island, and was first settled his wife and child in 1609, For the next 300 years, by the English colonists with some very promising Mulberry Island remained shortly after Jamestown seeds for a different strain very rural, until it was was established in 1607. of tobacco he hoped would purchased by the Federal Government in 1918. An important event in prove more favorable to Virginia’s history occurred export from Virginia than Civil in the James River off had been the experience 2. American Mulberry Island in the to date. He had been War: The Warwick Line summer of 1610. Survivors shipwrecked on Bermuda During the Peninsula of the ill-fated Third Supply in the Sea Venture lost his Campaign of the American mission from England and wife and child by this time, Civil War in 1862, Fort the Starving Time in the but still had the untried Craword on Mulberry anchored the Colony had boarded ships seeds. The turning point at Island intent upon abandoning Mulberry Island delivered southern end of the the floundering Colony of both Lord Delaware and Warwick Line, a line of defensive Virginia and were met off businessman-farmer John Confederate Mulberry Point by Lord Rolfe, two very different works across the Virginia Delaware with a fleet of men, back to Jamestown, Peninsula extending to ships from headed upriver where they and the others Yorktown on the north at the York River. bringing supplies from were to find new success. England and a fresh Lord Delaware’s skills determination to stay. and resources combined 3. World War I: Camp Abraham Eustis He literally turned with Rolfe’s new strain the situation around of tobacco to provide On 7 March 1918, the by convincing the colony with effective Army bought Mulberry the colonists leadership structure as Island and the surrounding w h o the new cash crop began land for $538,000 as part
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of the military build-up for World War I. Approximately 200 residents were relocated, many to the Jefferson Park area nearby in Warwick County. Camp Abraham Eustis was established as a coast artillery replacement center for Fort Monroe and a balloon observation school. It was named for Brevit Brigadier General Abraham Eustis, a 19thcentury leader who had been the first commanding officer of Fort Monroe, a defensive fortification at the mouth of Hampton Roads about 15 miles (24 km) east at Old Point Comfort in what is now the city of Hampton. 4.
Camp Wallace
A few miles upstream along the James River, a satellite facility, Camp Wallace, was established in 1918 as the Upper Firing Range of for artillery training. Consisting of 30 barracks, six storehouses, and eight mess halls, it was located on 160 acres (0.6 km2) on the edge of Grove, just west of the Carter’s Grove Plantation property, south of U.S. Route 60, and east of the old Kingsmill Plantation in nearby James City County. Camp Wallace included some rugged terrain and bluffs overlooking the river. It was the site of anti-aircraft training during World War II. Many years later, the Army’s aerial tramway was first erected at Camp Wallace and later moved to Fort Eustis near the Reserve Fleet for further testing. The purpose of the tramway was to provide cargo movement from ship-to-shore, shore-to-ship, and overland. The tramway supplemented beach and pier operations, used unloading points deemed unusable due to inadequate or non-navigable waters, or to traverse land that was otherwise impassable. In 1971, the U.S. Army agreed to a land swap with Anheuser-Busch in return for a larger parcel which is located directly across Skiffe’s Creek from Fort Eustis. Along with land previously owned by Colonial Williamsburg, the former Camp Wallace land became part of a massive development. Nearby, the Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park opened in 1975, as well as a large brewery, and the Kingsmill Resort. 5.
1923: Camp becomes Fort Eustis
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In 1925 Eustis National Forest was established on the installation. The post was garrisoned by artillery and infantry units until 1931, when it became a federal prison, primarily for bootleggers during Prohibition. The repeal of Prohibition resulted in a prisoner decline and the post was taken over by various other military and non-military activities including a WPA camp that utilized some of the barracks on the post during the Great Depression. 6.
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Center moving to Fort Lee, Va., in 2010. Fort Eustis was merged with nearby Langley Air Force Base as Joint Base LangleyEustis and its former subinstallation Fort Story was re-aligned as a Naval installation. Joint Base Langley Eustis gained the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command after II, the closure of Fort Monroe.
Fort Eustis was reopened as a military installation in August 1940 as the Coast Artillery Replacement Training Center. In 1943, the Caribbean Regiment of the British Army was formed there. In 1946, Fort Eustis became home to the newly formed Transportation School which moved there from New Orleans. Training in rail, marine, amphibious operations and other modes of transportation World Views Guides
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was consolidated at Fort substances. Since the start Eustis. of the 21st century many The Base Realignment of these ships, some dating and Closure directives back to the World War II era from the U.S. Congress, have been removed under resulted in the U.S. Army contracts with scrapping companies. Transportation School and
1. Ghost Fleet or Dead Fleet A portion of the U.S. Maritime Administration’s National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) is anchored in the James River adjacent to Mulberry Island. Known locally as the Ghost Fleet, some of these inactive ships have become too old and deteriorated to ever be reactivated and have become environmental hazards, as they still hold fuel oil and other hazardous
2. T r a n s p o r t a t i o n Corps Regiment On 31 July 1986, the Transportation Corps celebrated its 44th Anniversary. This was also the day the Transportation Corps was inducted into the U.S. Army Regimental System. The activation of the Regiment marked the redesignation of several Transportation Corps training commands. The redesignation provided a link with renowned transportation units of the past. The Training Brigade was reflagged the 8th Transportation Brigade, honoring the 8th Transportation Group in Vietnam. The 8th Transportation Group enjoyed an outstanding reputation in Vietnam for its support of numerous tactical operations and for the development of
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the “gun truck,” a highly armored 5-ton truck usually sporting multiple M2 .50 caliber machine guns. The 2nd Battalion, Training Brigade, was reflagged as the 71st Transportation Battalion. The 2nd Battalion, 5th Training Brigade, Fort Dix, was reflagged as the 36th Transportation Battalion. The 5th Battalion, 4th Training Brigade, Fort Leonard Wood was reflagged as the 58th Transportation Battalion. These units were reflagged as part of the Army’s parent regiment system.
Training. Major General Fred E. Elam, the first Regimental Commander, named General Frank S. Besson, Jr. as the first honorary Colonel of the Regiment (posthumously) in honor of his lifelong service to the Transportation Corps. 3. U.S. Army transportation museum
The U.S. Army Transportation Museum, a museum of U.S. Army vehicles and other transportation related equipment, and memorabilia, is located on The regimental crest is the grounds of Fort Eustis. inscribed with the Corps motto—Spearhead of Logistics—to symbolize a soldier’s affiliation with the Transportation Corps. Upon completion of the Transportation Officer Basic Course, officers are automatically inducted into the Corps, Warrant Officers’ are inducted upon completion of the Warrant Officer Candidate Course and enlisted soldiers are inducted upon completion of Advanced Individual World Views Guides | 2014
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Williamsburg is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,068. Located on the Virginia Peninsula, Williamsburg is in the northern part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is bordered by James City County and York County. Williamsburg was founded in 1632 as Middle Plantation as a fortified settlement on high ground between the James and York rivers. The city served as the capital of the Colony of Virginia from 1699 to 1780 and was the center of political events in Virginia leading to the American Revolution. The College of William & Mary, established in 1693, is the secondoldest institution of higher education in the United States and the only one of the nine colonial colleges located in the South; its alumni include three U.S. presidents as well as many other important figures in the nation’s early history. World Views Guides
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The city’s tourism-based economy is driven by Colonial Williamsburg, the restored Historic Area of the city. Along with nearby Jamestown and Yorktown, Williamsburg forms part of the Historic Triangle, which attracts more than four million tourists each year. Modern Williamsburg is also a college town, inhabited in large part by William & Mary students and staff.
A n h e u s e r- B u s c h ’s takeover by foreign brewer InBev in 2010. AnheuserBusch also previously operated a commerce park, McLaw’s Circle, and Kingsmill on the James a gated residential neighborhood that contains a resort of the same name.
Williamsburg contains one outlet mall, Williamsburg Premium Outlets. A second outlet mall, Williamsburg Outlet Mall, closed in December 2013. 1. Economy Williamsburg Pottery The tourist volume of Factory also contains Colonial Williamsburg outlet stores. has attracted many other related businesses to the 2. Media area. Notable among these Williamsburg is primarily was Anheuser-Busch, served by two newspapers: which established large The Virginia Gazette and operations in James City Williamsburg-Yorktown County and York County Daily. just outside the city. The company operates a The Gazette is a bi-weekly, large brewery there. The published in Williamsburg, company also used to and was the first newspaper operate two theme parks to be published south near the brewery, Busch of the Potomac River, Gardens Williamsburg, starting in 1736. Its and Water Country USA; publisher was William however, both properties Parks, who had similar were sold to private ventures in Maryland. investors following After Parks death in 1750, the newspaper was started
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up again by William Hunter (Parks’ shop foreman) in 1751. The Daily Press, published in nearby Newport News, covers local, regional and national news. The College of William & Mary has two student newspapers; the student-fee-supported campus newspaper is The Flat Hat while the independent campus newspaper is The Virginia Informer. William & Mary students produce many other publications and run their own radio station, WCWM. Hampton Roads Magazine serves as a bi-monthly regional magazine for Williamsburg and the Hampton Roads area. Williamsburg is served by a variety of radio stations on the AM and FM dials, with towers located around the Hampton Roads area. Williamsburg is served by the Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News designated market area (DMA), which is the forty-second largest in the U.S. with 712,790 homes (0.64% of the total U.S.).[ 3. Notable People •
• John Nicholas (congressman) former US Congressman Robert C. Nicholas (New York), former New York State Senator • Robert Carter Nicholas, Sr., judge • Wilson Cary Nicholas, former US Senator • Lemuel J. Bowden, former US Senator • Lawrence Taylor, former New York Giants linebacker • Bruce Hornsby, singer and keyboardist • Lorenzo Taliaferro, Baltimore Ravens running back
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