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June 6, 2007 [2] Hampton City Hall is a historic city hall located at Hampton, Virginia. It was built in 1938–1939, and is a two-story, concrete building clad in brick veneer and topped with a flat roof surrounded by a parapet in the Art Deco style. In 1962, the building was expanded and converted for use as a Juvenile Courts and Probation ...
Ponquogue Bridge. / 40.8439; -72.5011. The Ponquogue Bridge is a 2,812-foot-long (857 m) bridge over Shinnecock Bay in Hampton Bays, New York. Maintained by the Department of Works for Suffolk County, the 29-span bridge carries two lanes of County Route 32 over the bay, connecting Hampton Bays to the eastern end of Westhampton Island. [3]
Hampton Water Treatment Works buildings alongside the A308. Hampton Water Treatment Works are water treatment works located on the River Thames in Hampton, London.Built in the second half of the 19th Century to supply London with fresh water, the Waterworks was in the past a significant local employer, and its brick pumphouses dominate the local landscape.
Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association after the American Civil War to provide education to freedmen. The campus houses the Hampton University ...
The Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel south portal island connects to about 20 acres (8.1 ha) of land that is the site of Fort Wool, a fort during the US Civil War, World War I, and World War II, and a public park since 1970. Fort Wool is on an artificial island known as Rip Raps, created in 1818. There is a small earthen causeway that connects ...
Hampton University, Virginia. Coordinates. 37°01′22″N 76°20′07″W. / 37.022640°N 76.335270°W / 37.022640; -76.335270. Director. Vanessa Thaxton-Ward, Ph.D. Website. museum .hamptonu .edu. Founded in 1868 on the campus of Hampton University, the Hampton University Museum is the oldest African-American museum in the United ...
A public employment programme or public works programme is the provision of employment by the creation of predominantly public goods at a prescribed wage for those unable to find alternative employment. This functions as a form of social safety net. Public works programmes are activities which entail the payment of a wage (in cash or in kind ...
Hampton Roads is the name of both a body of water in the United States that serves as a wide channel for the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers between Old Point Comfort and Sewell's Point near where the Chesapeake Bay flows into the Atlantic Ocean, and the surrounding metropolitan region located in the southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina portions of the Tidewater Region.