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PORTSMOUTH , a See also:city of See also:Norfolk See also:county, See also:Virginia, U.S.A., on the See also:Elizabeth See also:river opposite Norfolk. Pop. (191o, See also:census), 33190. Portsmouth is served by the See also:Atlantic See also:Coast See also:Line, the Seaboard See also:Air Line, the Chesapeake & See also:Ohio and the New See also:York, See also:Philadelphia & Norfolk (See also:Pennsylvania See also:system), the See also:Southern, and the Norfolk & Western See also:railways, by steamboat lines to See also:Washington, See also:Baltimore, New York, See also:Providence and See also:Boston, by ferries to Norfolk, and by electric lines to numerous suburbs. There is a 3o-ft. channel to the ocean. Portsmouth is situated on level ground only a few feet above the See also:sea; it has about 22 m. of See also:water-front, and adjoins one of the richest trucking districts in the Southern States. Among the See also:principal buildings are the county See also:court See also:house, city See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, commercial See also:building, See also:United States See also:naval See also:hospital, See also:post See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office building, high school and the Portsmouth See also:orphan See also:asylum, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's Daughters' hospital and the old Trinity See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church (1762). In the southern See also:part of the city is a United States See also:navy yard and station, officially the Ncrfolk Yard (the second largest in the See also:country), of about 450 acres, with three immense dry docks, See also:machine shops, See also:ware-houses, travelling and water See also:cranes, a training station, See also:torpedo-See also:boat headquarters, a See also:powder plant (20 acres), a naval See also:magazine, a naval hospital and the See also:distribution headquarters of the United See also:State Marine See also:Corps. The See also:total value of the city's factory products in 1905 was only $145,439. The city is a centre of the Virginia See also:oyster " See also:fisheries." Portsmouth and Norfolk See also:form a customs See also:district, Norfolk being the See also:port of entry, whose exports in 1908 were valued at $11,326,817, and imports at $1,150,044.
Portsmouth was established by See also:act of the Virginia See also:assembly in 1752, incorporated as a See also:town in 1852 and chartered as a city in 1858. Though situated in Norfolk county, the city has been since its See also:incorporation administratively See also:independent of it. Shortly before the See also:War of See also:Independence the See also:British established a marine yard where the navy yard now is, but during the war it was confiscated by Virginia and in 1801 was sold to the United States. In See also:April 1861 it was burned and abandoned by the Federals, and for a See also:year afterwards was the See also:chief navy yard of the Confederates. Here was constructed the See also:iron-clad " Virginia " (the old " See also:Merrimac "), which on the 9th of See also:March 1862 fought in See also:Hampton Roads (q.v.) the famous engagement with the " See also:Monitor." Two months later, on the 9th of May, the Confederates abandoned the navy yard and evacuated Norfolk and Portsmouth, and the " Virginia " was destroyed by her See also:commander, See also:Josiah See also:Tattnall.
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