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See also:NEWPORT See also:NEWS , a See also:city and See also:port of entry of See also:Warwick See also:county, See also:Virginia, U.S.A., on the See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:River and See also:Hampton Roads, 14 M. N. by W. of See also:Norfolk and 75 M. S.E. of See also:Richmond; it is situated on what is known as the Virginia See also:Peninsula. Pop. (189o) 4449; (1900) 19,635, of whom 1614 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 6798 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 20,205. Newport News is served by the Chesapeake & See also:Ohio railway, of which it is a See also:terminus; by river boats to Richmond and See also:Petersburg, Va.; by coastwise steamship lines to See also:Washington, D.C., See also:Baltimore, See also:Philadelphia, New See also:York, See also:Boston and See also:Providence; by foreign steamship lines to See also:London, See also:Glasgow, See also:Liverpool, See also:Dublin, See also:Belfast, See also:Rotterdam, See also:Hamburg and other ports; and by electric lines to Old Point Comfort, Norfolk and See also:Portsmouth. A public See also:park extending from the James to the See also:heart of the city, a deep, spacious and well-protected See also:harbour, a large See also:shipbuilding yard with three immense dry docks, and two large See also:grain See also:elevators of 2,000,000 bushels capacity, are among the most prominent features; at the shipbuilding yard various See also:United States See also:battle-See also:ships, including the " Kearsarge," " See also:Kentucky," " See also:Illinois," " See also:Missouri," " See also:Louisiana," " See also:Minnesota," " Virginia " and " See also:West Virginia," were constructed, as well as cruisers, See also:gun-boats, See also:merchant vessels, See also:ferry-boats and submarines. The city's export of grain and its coastwise See also:trade in See also:coal are especially large. Among the manufactures are shoes, See also:tobacco, medicines and knit goods. The value of the factory products in 1905 was $9,053,906, being 52.5% more than in 1900. Both in Too() and in 1905 Newport News ranked second to Richmond among the cities of the See also:state in the value of factory products. The first See also:settlement on the site of Newport News was made in 1621 by planters brought from See also:Ireland by See also:Daniel Gookin, the See also:father of Daniel Gookin (1612–1687) of See also:Massachusetts, who selected the site on the See also:advice of See also:Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Newce and his See also:brother See also:Captain Newce. The See also:present city See also:dates only from 1882, when it was laid out in consequence of the See also:extension of the Chesapeake & Ohio railway to the See also:coast here; it was incorporated in 1896. The name is said to be in See also:honour of See also:Christopher Newport and Sir William Newce.
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