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Norfolk ( / ˈnɔːrfʊk / ⓘ NOR-fuuk, locally / ˈnɔːfɪk / NAW-fik) is an independent city in Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Norfolk had a population of 238,005, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, and the 95th-most populous city in the nation. [4]
Designated VLR. December 2, 1969 [1] Drydock Number One is the oldest operational drydock facility in the United States. Located in Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, it was put into service in 1834, and has been in service since then. Its history includes the refitting of USS Merrimack, which was modified to be the Confederate ...
Injured. 1. At Navy Pier 1, located within the larger Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia, at approximately 11:20 at night on 24 March 2014, Jeffery Tyrone Savage, a 35-year-old civilian truck driver, drove his 2002 Freight-liner near the pier and boarded the USS Mahan, a guided-missile destroyer. Savage was unarmed, but disarmed the sailor ...
Norfolk station (Amtrak) / 36.8433; -76.2759. Norfolk station is a train station in Norfolk, Virginia. [2] It sits along the Elizabeth River on the eastern edge of Downtown Norfolk, next to the Harbor Park baseball stadium and near the Harbor Park station of the Tide Light Rail system. Since 2012, it has served as the terminus of a branch of ...
The Commodore Levy Chapel is an unaffiliated Jewish synagogue and chapel, located at Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Virginia, in the United States. Established in 1942 and renamed in 1959 in honor of Uriah P. Levy, the synagogue and chapel are the oldest Jewish chapel in the United States Navy. The synagogue and chapel are part of a chapel ...
Naval Station Norfolk Chambers Field ( IATA : NGU , ICAO : KNGU , FAA LID : NGU ),or LP-1/Chambers Field, is commonly known simply as, Chambers Field, and is named after Captain Washington Irving Chambers. It is a military airport in Norfolk, Virginia that is a part of Naval Station Norfolk. It supports naval air forces in the United States ...
The Burning of Norfolk was an incident that occurred on January 1, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. British Royal Navy ships in the harbor of Norfolk, Virginia, began shelling the town, and landing parties came ashore to burn specific properties. The town, whose significantly Loyalist population had fled, was occupied by Patriot ...
Norfolk Terminal Station. / 36.843475; -76.276117. Norfolk Terminal Station was a railroad union station located in Norfolk, Virginia, which served passenger trains and provided offices for the Norfolk and Western Railway, the original Norfolk Southern Railway (a regional carrier in Virginia and North Carolina which became part of and later ...