Desegregation can also result from additional suits brought by Negro plaintiffs against school boards in Newport News, Fairfax County, Arlington County, and Norfolk.

* 1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding.

The heavy cruiser USS Newport News was designated flagship for the blockade, with the USS Leary ( DD-879 ) as Newport News destroyer escort.

* Colonial ( Amtrak 1976 ), an Amtrak train that began running between Newport News, Virginia and New York in 1976.

* Mercury Boulevard, in the cities of Hampton and Newport News, Virginia, United States

Newport News Shipbuilding ( NNS ), originally Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company ( NNS & DD ), was the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States prior to being purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2001.

Known as Northrop Grumman Newport News ( NGNN ), and later Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding Newport News ( NGSB-NN ), the company is located in Newport News, Virginia, and often participates in projects with the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, also located adjacent to Hampton Roads.

In March 2011 Newport News Shipbuilding, along with the shipbuilding sector of Northrop Grumman spun-off to form a new company called Huntington Ingalls Industries

An 1899 advertisement for the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company

In 1881, the Peninsula Extension of the C & O was built from Richmond down the Virginia Peninsula to reach a new coal pier on Hampton Roads in Warwick County near the small unincorporated community of Newport News Point.

However, building the railroad and coal pier was only the first part of Huntington's dreams for Newport News.

Newport News shares water borders with Portsmouth on the southeast and Suffolk on the south across Hampton Roads, and

Most of its land area lies on Aquidneck Island, which it shares with Middletown and Newport.

However, Chesterton Windmill | this 17th-century windmill near Chesterton, England, shares many characteristics with the Newport Tower

After the sale of his shares, he became rich once again and was able to purchase a yacht befitting a Newport Beach resident.

Its historical name was Sinckan ( 新港, Xingang, literally ' Newport ') and shares the same namesake as the Sinckan language and Sinckan Manuscripts.

In a July 2008 interview, Brooks described plans to redevelop part of downtown Newport News, a city that shares many of the same social problems as New Orleans.

Newport News Park shares a long stretch of border with the Colonial National Historical Park and several of the park's biking and hiking trails cross over into the CNHP.

Much of the land that was not purchased by UCI ( which is now occupied by the cities of Irvine, Tustin, Newport Beach, and Newport Coast ) is now held under The Irvine Company.

At that time, settlers began clearing land along the James River ( the navigable part of which was called Hampton Roads ) for plantations, including the present area of Newport News.

The lyrics appear with permission from the Author :( 1st verse ): Harbor of a thousand ships / Forger of a nation's fleet / Gateway to the New World / Where ocean and river meet /( chorus ): Strength wrought from steel / And a people's fortitude / Such is the timeless legacy / Of a place called Newport News /( 2nd verse ): Nestled in a blessed land / Gifted with a special view / Forever home for ev ' ry man / With a spirit proud and true /( repeat chorus to fade )

Southport, which comprises just over one-third of the city's land area, originally consisted of rural homesteads and small neighborhoods in Arlington Oaks and Linden, but now has a considerable population that resulted from housing booms in the early 1990s and the early 2000s, adding new neighborhoods in Bridgeway, Gateway, River Ranch, and Newport.

Settled about 1791, on land granted to George Muse, purchased by James Taylor Sr. and settled by his son James Taylor, Jr .. Newport was incorporated as a town in 1795 and in 1850 Newport received a city charter.

By the early 1850s, a group of investors had been formed and incorporated a land development project known as the " Shepard Point Land Company " which purchased of land on the eastern tip of the peninsula bordering the Newport River known then as " Shepards Point " which is the present day location of Morehead City, North Carolina.

The central village of Newport, a census-designated place ( CDP ), has an area of, all land.

Unlike other early Newport Beach landowners, Irvine and his partners had no interest in subdividing and selling, intent, instead, upon identifying the most lucrative agricultural uses for their enormous tract of land, spanning over 100, 000 acres.

In east Newport, there are proposals to transform land released from the Corus steelworks at Llanwern into 4, 000 houses, shops and other facilities, with the creation of up to 6, 000 jobs.

Through the new railroad and his land company, coal piers were established at Newport News Point.

The Peninsula is connected from the land via Hwy 1-Pacific Coast Hwy ( PCH ) at Balboa Boulevard, via Bridge at Newport Blvd from PCH and from Via Lido which connects via bridge to Lido Isle, via Bridge from Newport Island, via Bridge from Bay Isle and via Ferry Boat from Balboa Blvd and Palm St. to Balboa Island which is connected via bridge from Jamboree Rd and Hwy 1 ( PCH ).

Annesley, a member of an influential Anglo-Irish family which descended from Newport Pagnell in the County of Buckinghamshire, was a favourite of James I who granted him land in Ireland, notably the fort of Mountnorris in County Armagh.

The Yalukit-willam people of the Boon-wurrung Country are the traditional owners of land known as Newport, with a well researched connection to the area beyond 30, 000 years.

Racism too was a factor in Newport as it commonly was across the land during that era.

The land for this, called Seven Acre Green, was given to the village by Viscount Newport in 1895.

The Newport Quakers community struggled on for a few more years and eventually bought some land in Roscommon where they would be closer to the Quaker community at Ballymurray.

During the winter of 1739 / 1740 the last of the Newport Quaker community left their Newport land and homes and moved to Co. Roscommon where their lives would be less wretched.

The O ' Donel family who took over from the Medlycotts were Protestant but George O ' Donel's wife was a Catholic and he donated three acres of land on Barrack Hill to the Sisters of Mercy to build a convent in Newport.

Newport has several several small industries within it borders, including a Ciba Corporation pigment manufacturing plant.

The station borders the cities of Newport News and Williamsburg.

William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

But it didn't take Judy Garland, showman, long to realize that this sort of thing was par for the course at Newport and that you have to learn to live with it.

With capacity to produce up to 5, 000 engines a year by 100 specially trained personnel, like traditional Aston Martin engine production from Newport Pagnell, assembly of each unit is entrusted to a single technician from a pool of 30, with V8 and V12 variants assembled in under 20 hours.

They included: supporters of religious independents who did not want an established church and some of whom had sympathies with the Levellers ; Presbyterians who were willing to countenance the trial and execution of the King ; and later admissions, such as formerly excluded MPs who were prepared to denounce the Newport Treaty negotiations with the King.

He enjoyed jamming with fellow studio musicians which led to them being asked to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960.

After leaving Villanova, McLean became associated with famed folk music agent Harold Leventhal, and for the next six years performed at venues and events including the Bitter End and the Gaslight Cafe in New York, the Newport Folk Festival, the Cellar Door in Washington, D. C., and the Troubadour in Los Angeles.

The opening ceremony took place on 5 October 1912, with a match between Newport RFC and Cardiff RFC.

In Newport, Davis had met Columbia Records producer George Avakian, who persuaded him to sign with his label.

He also married Collis ' widow Arabella Huntington, and assumed Collis's leadership role with Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.

In 1968, Newport News merged with Tenneco Corporation.

The celebrated march of 1781 to Yorktown, Virginia that ended with the defeat of the British at the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake began in Newport, Rhode Island under the joint command of General George Washington who led American troops and the Comte de Rochambeau who led French soldiers sent by King Louis XVI.

Giuliani's high-profile raid of the Princeton / Newport firm ended with the defendants having their cases overturned on appeal on the grounds that what they had been convicted of were not crimes .< ref >

He then became involved with the avant-garde, performing on Jazz Advance ( 1956 ), the debut album of Cecil Taylor, and appearing with Taylor's groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival ; he also made a notable appearance on an early Gil Evans album.

Like Mississippi John Hurt, he was welcomed into the music scene of the 1960s and played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, the New York Folk Festival in July 1965, and the October 1967 European tour of the American Folk Festival along with Skip James and Bukka White.

Samuel and Tacy Hubbard, two members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, pastored by John Clarke ( 1609 – 76 ), withdrew from that church and joined with Stephen Mumford, a Seventh Day Baptist from England, and 4 others, covenanting to meet together for worship, calling themselves Sabbatarian Baptists.

** At Jamestown, Virginia, Christopher Newport returns in a ship with the First Supply and about 100 new settlers ; he finds only 38 survivors.

* January 8 – Ensign Thomas Savage arrivies in Jamestown with the First Supply under Christopher Newport.