Timeline of Hampton, Virginia

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

17th century

• 1607 - April 30: European settlers arrived at Old Point Comfort and established settlement of Mill Creek (later Phoebus) just outside the Algonquin village of Kecoughtan
• 1610
  • July 9 - European settlers permanently drove out the Native Americans from Kecoughtan. ^[1]
  • Fort Algernon, Fort Charles, and Fort Henry were built. ^[2]
  • St. John's Church was founded. ^[2]
• 1619
  • Mill Creek settlement became part of newly formed Elizabeth Cittie. ^[2]
  • August: 1619 First Africans in Virginia landed at Point Comfort
• 1630 – Trading post was established. ^[3]
• 1634 – Settlement became part of newly formed Elizabeth City County. ^[2]
• 1680 – Town of Hampton was established per "Act of Cohabitation." ^[2]

18th century

• 1705 – Hampton became a "port of entry." ^[3]
• 1715 – Hampton designated seat of Elizabeth City County. ^[2]
• 1718 – Head of dead pirate Blackbeard was displayed on a pole at place later known as "Blackbeard's Point." ^[2]
• 1727 – St John’s church was rebuilt. ^[1]
• 1728 - Fort George was built at Old Point Comfort. ^[4]
• 1749 - The Coastal Hurricane of 1749 hit area, destroyed Fort George and created Willoughby Spit ^[4]
• 1755 – "1,000 Acadian" travellers stayed temporarily in Hampton. ^[2]
• 1775 - October 24–27: British troops directed by John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore raided Hampton, but were repulsed by patriot Virginia Militia ^[5]
• 1788 – Hampton became part of the new U.S. state of Virginia.

19th century

• 1805 – Hampton Academy became active. ^[6]
• 1813 – Hampton was taken by British forces during the War of 1812. ^[2]
• 1823 – U.S. Fort Monroe was built. ^[6]
• 1849
  • March: Town of Hampton incorporated. ^[3]
  • December: Town incorporation repealed. ^[3]
• 1852 – Town incorporated again. ^[3]
• 1857 – Chesapeake Female College was built. ^[1]
• 1860
  • Town incorporation repealed again. ^[3]
  • Population expanded up to 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. ^[7]
• 1868 – Hampton Agricultural and Industrial Institute and its museum were established. ^{[8] [9]}
• 1870 – National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers Southern Branch began operating.
• 1871 – Hampton Institute Press was founded. [10]
• 1872 – Hampton Institute's Southern Workman journal began publication. ^[10]
• 1875 – Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton Institute. ^[8]
• 1876
  • Hampton Monitor newspaper began publication. ^[11]
  • County courthouse was built. ^[6]
• 1878 – Little England Chapel was built. ^[12]
• 1882 – Railroad began operating. ^[6]
• 1884
  • Fire. ^[6]
  • Bulletin newspaper began publication. ^[13]
• 1887 – Town incorporated again once more. ^{[3] [1]}
• 1889
  • Citizens Railway (trolley) began operating. ^[14]
  • People's Building and Loan Association in business. ^[15]
• 1890 – Population increased up to 2,513. ^[1]
• 1891 – Dixie Hospital nursing school was established. ^[16]
• 1897 – Annual Hampton Negro Conference was held at the Hampton Institute. ^[8]
• 1900 – Population increased up to 2,764. ^[1]

20th century

• 1903 – Hampton Institute's Huntington Memorial Library was built. ^[17]
• 1908
  • March 4: City of Hampton was incorporated. ^[3]
  • B’nai Israel synagogue was built. ^[18]
• 1912 – American Theatre was built. ^[6]
• 1915 – Apollo Theatre in business. ^[19]
• 1916 – Braddock monument was erected. ^[2]
• 1917 – U.S. military Langley Field (airfield) and its Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory (later NASA Langley Research Center) began operating. ^[6]
• 1920
  • Scott Theatre was opened. ^[19]
  • Population grew up to 6,138.
• 1922 – February 21: U.S. military airship Roma exploded during test flight. ^[7]
• 1926 – Taylor Memorial Library was opened. ^[20]
• 1928 – Chamberlin Hotel was built. ^[12]
• 1930 – "Hampton Veterans' Facility" began operating. ^[6]
• 1937 – Aberdeen Gardens (housing) was built by U.S. Interior Department's Subsistence Homesteads Division.
• 1939 – Hampton City Hall was built. ^[12]
• 1943 – U.S. Langley Research Center's racially segregated West Area Computers began operating.
• 1948
  • WVEC radio began broadcasting. ^[21]
  • Green Acres Auto Theatre (drove-in cinema) in business. ^[19]
• 1950 – Population expanded up to 5,966.
• 1952
  • July 1: Elizabeth City County (including Phoebus) was consolidated into city of Hampton. ^[3]
  • Fort Wool historic site was established. ^[9]
• 1954 – October: Hurricane Hazel occurred. ^[22]
• 1957 – Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel to Norfolk was opened. ^[6]
• 1960
  • Interstate 64 highway construction was completed.
  • Population increased up to 89,258.
• 1962
  • Kecoughtan High School was founded.
• 1964 – WHOV radio began broadcasting.
• 1968
  • Thomas Nelson Community College was founded. ^[6]
  • Bethel High School was built.
• 1970 – Hampton Coliseum was opened. ^[6]
• 1973 – Coliseum Mall in business.
• 1979 – September: Hurricane David occurred. ^[22]
• 1982 – Finite element machine was invented at NASA Langley Research Center (approximate date).
• 1984 – Hampton University became active.
• 1987 – Hampton Public Library new building was opened. ^[20]
• 1992 – Virginia Air and Space Center was established. ^[9]
• 1993 – Bobby Scott became U.S. representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district. ^[23]
• 1994 – Hampton Roads Voice newspaper began publication. ^[11]
• 1996
  • July: Hurricane Bertha (1996) occurred. ^[22]
  • City website started operating online (approximate date). ^{[24] [25]}

21st century

• 2003 – Hampton History Museum was opened. ^[26]
• 2008 – Molly Joseph Ward became mayor.
• 2010
  • U.S. military Joint Base Langley–Eustis started its operation near city.
  • Population rose up to 137,436. ^[27]
• 2011
  • Fort Monroe was decommissioned by the U.S. military
• 2016
  • Donnie Tuck became mayor.
  • Hidden Figures movie was released, partially set in Hampton. ^[28]

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. William A. Stanard, ed. (June 1907). "Virginia Council Journals". The Virginia magazine of history and biography. Vol. XIV. p. 119.
5. Herschthal, Eric (November 1, 2013). "Dunmore's Proclamation". Slate. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
6. Hellmann 2006.
7. Ernie Gross (1990). This Day in American History . Neal-Schuman. ISBN   978-1-55570-046-1.
8. Wedin, Carolyn (2009). "Hampton Negro Conferences". In Finkelman, Paul (ed.). Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: from the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century. Oxford University Press. p. 359. ISBN   978-0-19-516779-5. OCLC   312624445.
9. American Association for State and Local History (2002). "Virginia". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). Rowman Altamira. p. 822. ISBN   0759100020.
10. 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.
11. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America . Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
12. "Hampton". City or County Listings: Virginia Landmarks Register & National Register of Historic Places. Richmond: Virginia Department of Historic Resources . Retrieved May 10, 2017.
13. "Virginia: Hampton". American Newspaper Directory. New York: George P. Rowell. 1900. hdl:2027/umn.31951002273861a – via HathiTrust.
14. Parke Rowse (April 4, 1993), "Streetcars Traversed Peninsula Before WWII", Daily Press , Newport News
15. "Encyclopedia Virginia". Charlottesville: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities . Retrieved May 10, 2017.
16. 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
17. "Virginia". American Library Annual, 1917-1918. New York: R.R. Bowker Co. 1918. pp. 7 v. hdl:2027/mdp.39015013751220.
18. "Newport News/Hampton, Virginia". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life . Retrieved May 12, 2017.
19. "Movie Theaters in Hampton, VA". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
20. "History of the Hampton Public Library, 1926-2006". City of Hampton. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
21. "AM Stations in the U.S.: Virginia", Radio Annual Television Year Book, New York: Radio Television Daily, 1963, OCLC   10512375 – via Internet Archive
22. "Hurricane History of Central and Eastern Virginia" (PDF). National Weather Service . Retrieved May 10, 2017.
23. "Virginia". Official Congressional Directory. 1991/1992- : S. Pub. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1993. hdl:2027/uc1.l0072691827 – via HathiTrust.
24. "City of Hampton Online!". Archived from the original on December 21, 1996 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
25. Kevin Hyde; Tamie Hyde (eds.). "United States of America: Virginia". Official City Sites. Utah. OCLC   40169021. Archived from the original on August 24, 2000.
26. "Hampton History Museum: History & Vision". Hampton.gov. City of Hampton. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
27. "Hampton city, Virginia (County)". QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
28. "'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 (Virginia)"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 12 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 906.
• 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)