"Life in the Reservation Community" will discuss the mostly-Black community that was removed in the early 20th century to make room for Naval Weapons Station Yorktown.
Lecture on the gone but not forgotten historic Reservation community set for Monday dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the decades before and after the Civil War, many Black people came to call the banks of the York River home. This, however, came to a halt in 1918 when the U.S. government took the land, displacing its residents, and created what is now known as Naval Weapons Station in Yorktown a far […]
Prohibition only lasted 17 years in Virginia, but 90 years after it ended, its impact is still felt in Hampton in unexpected ways. The nationwide ban on the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol came early to Virginia, three years before the passage of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – still the only amendment ever repealed, with the 21st Amendment in 1933. There’s still .
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