Norfolk: The First Four CenturiesThe first comprehensive history of Norfolk to appear since 1930, Norfolk: The First Four Centuries tells the story of America's largest maritime port from the first contact between a Spanish sailor and a Chiskiack man in 1561 to the city's late twentieth-century concerns, including pollution of the Chesapeake Bay, urban development, traffic in illegal guns, and racial tensions. |
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Contents
The Chesapeians 15851612 | 13 |
Adams Rib 162159 | 26 |
The Foundling 165591 | 43 |
The Exorcism 16911731 | 55 |
Red Horse Pale Horse 173172 | 70 |
The Tempering of Nellie and Margaret 177383 | 86 |
Les Miserables 17831801 | 102 |
O Jeremiah 17901809 | 119 |
Ruffles Truffles and Scuffles 187788 | 239 |
The Brambleton Insurrection 18881902 | 256 |
The Jimstowne Follies 190313 | 271 |
Kaiser Willis Boomtown 191421 | 286 |
Capn Whiskers on Rat Patrol 192129 | 301 |
The Misunderstanding 192938 | 317 |
Red Lights Blackouts and Norfolk County | 331 |
The Dixie AllAmerican 194663 | 347 |
Duel of the Damned 17991814 | 132 |
Whistling in the Wildnerness 181530 | 147 |
Last Train to Margarettsville 183044 | 161 |
The Ghosts of Julappi 184560 | 176 |
The Cheesebox and the Turtle 185962 | 193 |
A Question of Insanity 186265 | 209 |
The Unbuttoning 186576 | 224 |
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Norfolk: The First Four Centuries Thomas C. Parramore,Peter C. Stewart,Tommy Bogger No preview available - 1994 |
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| Title | Norfolk: The First Four Centuries |
| Authors | Thomas C. Parramore, Peter C. Stewart, Tommy L. Bogger |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | University of Virginia Press, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0813919886, 9780813919881 |
| Length | 507 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / United States / State & Local / General |
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