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The relatively small city of South Norfolk had become an incorporated town within Norfolk County in 1919, and became an independent city in 1922.

It was also motivated to make a change which would put it on a more equal footing in other aspects with the much larger cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth.

By the late 1950s, although immune from annexation by the bigger cities, the most recent suit by the city of Norfolk against Norfolk County would have taken all of the county land adjoining South Norfolk.