
Hampton
Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published on 25. August 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-7385-5381-8 (ISBN)
Description
According to its citizens, Hampton, Virginia, is the oldest continuously inhabited English-speaking city on the continent. It replaced Kecoughtan, an important Native American settlement. The English established a thriving tobacco port, a planned town centered on the intersection of King and Queen Streets. The British bombarded the town during the Revolutionary War and pillaged it during the War of 1812. Because of the continued Union occupation of Fort Monroe, Confederate troops burnt the town in 1861 during the Civil War. Rebuilding after 1865 was stimulated by the astonishing national success of the local crab and oyster industries. Early images portray Hamptonians on dusty streets with horse-drawn wagons and merchants in front of often ramshackle storefronts. Later photographs show imposing banks and a huge oyster pile dominating Crabtown as the first automobiles, electricity, and trolley cars appeared. Hampton's modern heyday of a working waterfront and busy streets, as shown on the cover, springs to life in these images.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7385-5381-8 (9780738553818)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
J. Michael Cobb is the curator of the Hampton History Museum; Wythe Holt is a fifth-generation Hamptonian and a retired professor of law and history at the University of Alabama. Most of these images are hidden treasures from the Hampton History Museum's collection.