Pages From the Past

Written and Compiled by:
Peggy Haile McPhillips, Norfolk City Historian
  • Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1855.
  • Norfolk's First Railroad Underpass.
  • Street Lamps.
  • The Nansemond, a Popular Ocean View Resort Hotel.
  • Norfolk Borough and County Courts and Offices.
  • The Last Streetcar Run in Norfolk.
  • Weather History.
  • Norfolk's First Hospital.
  • Smallpox.
  • Campostella Neighborhood.
  • Street Names.
  • Public School Names.
  • Commercial Air Passenger Service.
  • Norfolk Anniversaries.
  • Norfolk's First Shopping Center.
  • Foreman Field Stadium.
  • Broad Creek Village.
  • Norfolk's First Radio Station.
  • Visit of The Marquis de Lafayette.
  • Visit of John F. Kennedy.
  • College Place.
  • Larchmont.
  • Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
  • Norfolk Public Schools.
  • Colonial Place.
  • Virginian Pilot Scooped the News from Kitty Hawk.
  • What Chance of a White Christmas in Norfolk.
  • City Managers.
  • Wishing Tree.
  • Norfolk's First Post-Revolutionary Post Office.
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Visits Norfolk.
  • Shoe Stores.
  • USS Missouri.
  • Afro American History Month.
  • Valentine Story from 1924.
  • Ghent.
  • Ferry Service.
  • Virginia Power Company.
  • Berkley History.
  • Frederic Heutte (1899-1979).
  • Joseph Jenkins Roberts.
  • United States Marine Hospital.
  • Norfolk Public Library.
  • Atlantic City.
  • Two MacArthur Memorials.
  • WCMS Country Music Station.
  • Baseball History in Norfolk.
  • Virginia Beach Boulevard.
  • George Washington.
  • Lafayette Park.
  • Colley Avenue.
  • Norfolk Boat House.
  • Jockey Club.
  • Magnolia Avenue.
  • Klass Everts and the Schneider Cup Races.
  • Water Wells.
  • Boush Family.
  • "Pee Wee" Reese.
  • First Police Motorcycle Patrol.
  • Norfolk State University.
  • The Truculent Turtle.
  • The Nine O'clock Gun.
  • Water Shortage, 1919-1920.
  • Willoughby Spit.
  • United Way of South Hampton Roads.
  • Municipal Waterworks.
  • Lamberts Point.
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