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Atlantic City Delineated
(For more Norfolk geography tidbits, click here.)
By 1889, when the Hopkins [11] map was published, the relatively small area identified as Atlantic City butted against Colley Avenue (formerly Fort Norfolk Road), which was just east of Fort Norfolk. Adjacent to Fort Norfolk, and west of Colley Avenue were White & Garrett’s Plan, the Norfolk Knitting Mills, and Camp Property Plan. The individual plats of those properties (see below) identified them as being in “Atlantic City” too. North of the Camp Property was Tomoko, earlier owned by Lewis Webb (see the Tarrant1860map). (Its name suggests that the area may have been an Indian village earlier.) Tomoko (see, for example, the Hopkins [11] map) generally bordered on River Street – which parallelled Tarrant’s Creek (later filled in) – to its west, North Avenue (today Olney Road) to its north, Colley Avenue to its east, and the Camp property to its south. Central Avenue (later Fairfax Avenue) ran roughly east to west through it; and Spring, Poole, and Fort streets ran roughly north-south. When all these areas were redeveloped (between 1957 and 1979), the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority designated the entire project – including what was once Tomoko – as “Atlantic City.”
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