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Portsmouth, VA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Portsmouth a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Portsmouth Home page. The Portsmouth Home page provides as much information as possible on Portsmouth. Knowing Portsmouth’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Portsmouth’s Home page, you will also find Portsmouth’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Portsmouth has a population of 94961. 48.3% of Portsmouth’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.7 are female. 37.1% of Portsmouth is married and 55.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $174,537, and the average rent is $1,083. Household median income in Portsmouth is $53,213, and the individual median income is $28,402. Portsmouth’s Ethnic is the following: Black(52.6%), White(38.9%), Hispanic(4.7%), Multiple(4.2%), Other(2%), Asian(1.6%), Native(0.4%), Pacific(0.4%).
1752 - Portsmouth founded by politician William Crawford; named after Portsmouth, England. 1779 - Portsmouth sacked by British forces during the American Revolutionary War. 1812 - Dismal Swamp Canal opens. 1821 - Fire. 1822 - Norfolk-Portsmouth steam ferry begins operating. 1824 - October 25: Lafayette visits Portsmouth. 1836 - Town of Portsmouth incorporated. 1837 - Portsmouth & Roanoke Railroad begins operating. 1840 - Population: 6,477. 1846 - Norfolk County Courthouse built. 1850 - Population: 8,626. 1855 - Yellow fever outbreak. 1858 - City of Portsmouth incorporated as an independent city (separated from Norfolk County). 1865 - Zion Baptist Church founded. 1867 - Virginia Baptist State Convention organized during a meeting in Portsmouth. 1870 - Population: 10,590. 1890 - Became a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway. 1894 - Annexation of portions of Norfolk County North of the city 1900 - Lyceum Theatre in business. 1910 - Population: 33,190. 1909 – Annexation of portions of Norfolk County West of the city. 1914 - Portsmouth Public Library opens. 1919 – Expansion via the annexation of parts of Norfolk County that included the port zone (Pinner's Point) along the Elizbeth River to the north and residential areas to the West.
1922 - Chevra Thilim Synagogue built. 1939 - Lyric Theatre in business. 1948 – The fourth annexation since becoming an independent city, pushing the city boundary westward to Western Branch. 1949 - Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum established. 1950 - Population: 80,039. 1952 - Downtown Tunnel opens. 1955 - Portsmouth Historical Association founded. 1957 - WAVY-TV begins broadcasting. 1960 - Population: 114,773.
Portsmouth annexes additional portions of Norfolk County, including ten square miles and 36,000 residents. 1963 - Public Library's "Local History Room" established. 1966 - Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum established. 1968 – Further annexation of Norfolk County including ten square miles of land, 14 square miles of water area, and 11,000 residents, all within the norther one-third of Western Branch Borough. 1974 - Richard Joseph Davis becomes mayor. 1981 - Portsmouth Times newspaper begins publication. 1984 - James W.
Holley III becomes mayor. 1993 - Bobby Scott becomes U.S. representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district. 1998 - Museum of Military History established. 2001 - Randy Forbes becomes U.S. representative for Virginia's 4th congressional district. 2010 - Population: 95,535. 2017 - John L. Rowe, Jr.
becomes mayor.
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