Timeline of Hampton, Virginia

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hampton, Virginia, United States.

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17th-19th centuries

• 1610
  • European settlers arrive at Algonquin village Kecoughtan.[1]
  • Fort Charles and Fort Henry built.[2]
  • St. John's Church founded.[2]
• 1619 - Settlement becomes part of newly formed Elizabeth Cittie.[2]
• 1630 - Trading post established.[3]
• 1634 - Settlement becomes part of newly formed Elizabeth City County.[2]
• 1680 - Town of Hampton established per "Act of Cohabitation."[2]
• 1705 - Hampton becomes a "port of entry."[3]
• 1715 - Hampton designated seat of Elizabeth City County.[2]
• 1718 - Head of dead pirate Blackbeard displayed on a pole at place later known as "Blackbeard's Point."[2]
• 1755 - "1,000 Acadian" travellers stay temporarily in Hampton.[2]
• 1788 - Hampton becomes part of the new U.S. state of Virginia.
• 1805 - Hampton Academy active.[4]
• 1813 - Hampton taken by British forces during the War of 1812.[2]
• 1823 - U.S. Fort Monroe built.[4]
• 1849
  • March: Town of Hampton incorporated.[3]
  • December: Town incorporation repealed.[3]
• 1852 - Town incorporated again.[3]
• 1857 - Chesapeake Female College built.[1]
• 1860
  • Town incorporation repealed again.[3]
  • Population: 1,848.
• 1861 - August: Residents set fire to town in order to repel Union forces during the American Civil War.[2]
• 1865 - February 3: U.S.-Confederate Hampton Roads Conference held aboard the steamboat River Queen to discuss terms to end the American Civil War.[5]
• 1868 - Hampton Agricultural and Industrial Institute and its museum established.[6][7]
• 1870 - National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Southern Branch begins operating.
• 1871 - Hampton Institute Press founded.[8]
• 1872 - Hampton Institute's Southern Workman journal begins publication.[8]
• 1875 - Booker T. Washington graduates from Hampton Institute.[6]
• 1876
  • Hampton Monitor newspaper begins publication.[9]
  • County courthouse built.[4]
• 1878 - Little England Chapel built.[10]
• 1882 - Railroad begins operating.[4]
• 1884
  • Fire.[4]
  • Bulletin newspaper begins publication.[11]
• 1887 - Town incorporated again once more.[3]
• 1889
  • Citizens Railway (trolley) begins operating.[12]
  • People's Building and Loan Association in business.[13]
• 1891 - Dixie Hospital nursing school established.[14]
• 1897 - Annual "Hampton Negro Conference" begins.[6]
• 1900 - Population: 2,764.

20th century

• 1903 - Hampton Institute's Huntington Memorial Library built.[15]
• 1908
  • March 4: City of Hampton incorporated.[3]
  • B’nai Israel synagogue built.[16]
• 1912 - American Theatre built.[4]
• 1915 - Apollo Theatre in business.[17]
• 1916 - Braddock monument erected.[2]
• 1917 - U.S. military Langley Field (airfield) and its Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (later NASA Langley Research Center) begin operating.[4]
• 1920
  • Scott Theatre opens.[17]
  • Population: 6,138.
• 1922 - February 21: U.S. military airship Roma explodes during test flight.[5]
• 1926 - Taylor Memorial Library opens.[18]
• 1928 - Chamberlin Hotel built.[10]
• 1930 - "Hampton Veterans' Facility" begins operating.[4]
• 1937 - Aberdeen Gardens (housing) built by U.S. Interior Department's Subsistence Homesteads Division.
• 1939 - Hampton City Hall built.[10]
• 1943 - U.S. Langley Research Center's racially segregated West Area Computers begins operating.
• 1948
  • WVEC radio begins broadcasting.[19]
  • Green Acres Auto Theatre (drive-in cinema) in business.[17]
• 1950 - Population: 5,966.
• 1952
  • July 1: Elizabeth City County (including Phoebus) consolidated into city of Hampton.[3]
  • Fort Wool historic site established.[7]
• 1954 - October: Hurricane Hazel occurs.[20]
• 1957 - Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel to Norfolk opens.[4]
• 1960
  • Interstate 64 highway construction completed.
  • Population: 89,258.
• 1962
  • Kecoughtan High School founded.
• 1964 - WHOV radio begins broadcasting.
• 1968
  • Thomas Nelson Community College founded.[4]
  • Bethel High School built.
• 1970 - Hampton Coliseum opens.[4]
• 1973 - Coliseum Mall in business.
• 1979 - September: Hurricane David occurs.[20]
• 1982 - Finite element machine invented at NASA Langley Research Center (approximate date).
• 1984 - Hampton University active.
• 1987 - Hampton Public Library new building opens.[18]
• 1992 - Virginia Air and Space Center established.[7]
• 1993 - Bobby Scott becomes U.S. representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district.[21]
• 1994 - Hampton Roads Voice newspaper begins publication.[9]
• 1996
  • July: Hurricane Bertha (1996) occurs.[20]
  • City website online (approximate date).[22][23]

21st century

• 2003 - Hampton History Museum opens.[24]
• 2008 - Molly Joseph Ward becomes mayor.
• 2010
  • U.S. military Joint Base Langley–Eustis in operation near city.
  • Population: 137,436.[25]
• 2011
  • Fort Monroe decommissioned by the U.S. military
• 2016
  • Donnie Tuck becomes mayor.
  • Hidden Figures movie released, partially set in Hampton.[26]

See also

• Hampton history
• List of mayors of Hampton, Virginia
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampton, Virginia
• History of Hampton Roads area
• Timelines of other cities in Virginia: Alexandria, Lynchburg, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Richmond, Roanoke, Virginia Beach

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. Federal Writers' Project 1941.
3. "Cities of Virginia: Hampton". Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
4. Hellmann 2006.
5. Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History. Neal-Schuman. ISBN 978-1-55570-046-1.
6. Paul Finkelman, ed. (2009). Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516779-5.
7. American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Virginia". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). p. 822. ISBN 0759100020.
8. Donald F. Joyce (1991). Black Book Publishers in the United States: A Historical Dictionary of the Presses, 1817-1990. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0-313-26783-3.
9. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
10. "Hampton". City or County Listings: Virginia Landmarks Register & National Register of Historic Places. Richmond: Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
11. "Virginia: Hampton". American Newspaper Directory. New York: George P. Rowell. 1900 – via HathiTrust.
12. Parke Rowse (April 4, 1993), "Streetcars Traversed Peninsula Before WWII", Daily Press, Newport News
13. "Encyclopedia Virginia". Charlottesville: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
14. Everett Jenkins Jr. (1998). Pan-African Chronology II. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-4506-6. Black quest for freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, 1865-1915
15. "Virginia". American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918.
16. "Newport News/Hampton, Virginia". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved May 12, 2017.
17. "Movie Theaters in Hampton, VA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
18. "History of the Hampton Public Library, 1926-2006". City of Hampton. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
19. "AM Stations in the U.S.: Virginia", Radio Annual Television Year Book, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1963, OCLC 10512375 – via Internet Archive
20. "Hurricane History of Central and Eastern Virginia" (PDF). National Weather Service. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
21. "Virginia". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1993 – via HathiTrust.
22. "City of Hampton Online!". Archived from the original on December 21, 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
23. Kevin Hyde; Tamie Hyde (eds.). "United States of America: Virginia". Official City Sites. Utah. OCLC 40169021. Archived from the original on August 24, 2000.
24. "Hampton History Museum: History & Vision". Hampton.gov. City of Hampton. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
25. "Hampton city, Virginia (County)". QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
26. "'Hidden Figures' depicts role African-American women 'computers' played in history", New Journal and Guide, Norfolk, Va., September 15, 2016

Bibliography

• Richard Edwards, ed. (1855), "Hampton", Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia, Richmond
• J.H. Chataigne, ed. (1882). "Elizabeth City County". Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Directory. Richmond. (Includes information about Hampton)
• Thomas Whitehead; Virginia State Board of Agriculture (1893). "Elizabeth City". Virginia: a Hand-Book. Richmond. (Includes information about Hampton)
• Ordinances of the Town of Hampton, Virginia, 1897
• Newport News, Hampton, Phoebus and Old Point, Va. Directory: 1910, Richmond: Hill Directory Company, 1909
  • 1917 ed.
• "Hampton", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• Lyon G. Tyler (1922). History of Hampton and Elizabeth City County, Virginia. Board of Supervisors of Elizabeth City County.
• Gillie Cary McCabe (1929). Story of an Old Town: Hampton, Virginia. Richmond, Va.: Old Dominion Press.
• Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Hampton", Virginia: a Guide to the Old Dominion, American Guide Series, Oxford University Press, pp. 227+
• Parke Rouse Jr. (1986). Good Old Days in Hampton and Newport News. Richmond: Dietz Press. OCLC 13983158.
• Colita Nichols Fairfax (2005). Hampton, Virginia. Black America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia.
• Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "Virginia: Hampton". Historical Gazetteer of the United States. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-135-94859-3.

External links

• Items related to Hampton, Virginia, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)