Norfolk, Virginia's Atlantic City — or Ghent — and Lambert's Point: A History-Geography (Book 12, Encyclopedia of Norfolk) (110 pp.)

Norfolk, Virginia’s Atlantic City — or Ghent — and Lambert’s Point: A History-Geography (Book 12, Encyclopedia of Norfolk) (110 pp.)

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Norfolk, Virginia’s Atlantic City — or Ghent — and Lambert’s Point: A History-Geography (Book 12, Encyclopedia of Norfolk, Virginia, History-Geography) covers in exhaustive detail the history-geography of the areas of Norfolk’s Second and Sixth Annexations.

The book encompasses the lands located just west of the original city, areas known as Atlantic City, Ghent, East Ghent and West Ghent, the Hague, Fort Norfolk, and so on, lands once identified as Pleasant Point, Pattenween and the Thistle Distillery, Tomoko, the West End, Washington Creek, Jerusalem farm and Armistead’s Ropewalk, Llewellyn manor, Ribble Place, Lee Park, Williamston, Eureka Property, Pennock’s Point, Tarrant’s Creek/Edmond’s Creek, the Core Property, etc.

It also encompasses the lands of the Lambert’s Point Annexation, Norfolk’s Sixth Annexation (1911), located north of the eastern section of the Atlantic City Annexation. Named for the point of land jutting into the Elizabeth River and long known as Lamberts Point (and earlier said to have been called Hornet’s Point), it includes the site of the Lambert’s Point coal terminals (terminus of the original Norfolk and Western Railroad since the 1880s) and spans from the Elizabeth on its west to 49th Street (earlier called 45th St.) on its north. On its south, it runs along the main track of the N&W all the way to a branch track of the N&W that once existed on its east. It takes in the old Lambert’s Point Knitting Mill and an area once known as Peaton Town, among many locations south of today’s Larchmont section.

Their stories are told through contemporary historic maps, articles, deeds, advertisements, books and other documents that make this a magnificent resource and reference for this great American city of the east coast. (more)

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The Every Square Inch of Norfolk Virginia Series

The Every Square Inch of Norfolk Virginia project, which has created The Encyclopedia of Norfolk, Virginia History-Geography, begun in 2003 under the direction of Irwin Berent, is designed to document the geographical history of the entire length and breadth of Norfolk, Virginia, one of America’s most historic cities. The culmination of this ambitious and daunting task is The Encyclopedia of Norfolk, Virginia History-Geography, the “Every Square Inch of Norfolk Virginia Series.”

Each book of the “Every Square Inch of Norfolk Virginia Series” covers a different aspect of the history, infrastructure, and people of Norfolk by examining in minute detail the geography of the entirety of the city, as defined by its current bounds. Adopting a philosophy of “historical-geographic egalitarianism,” this series covers not, as most histories of Norfolk have, merely the land that formed the original town and borough – essentially the “downtown” area – but rather also all the land that encompasses the full city limits of the current day: spanning, therefore, from Berkley, Atlantic City, Ghent, Lambert’s Point, and Larchmont to Algonquin Park, Titus Town, Riverview, Benmorreel, Glenwood Park, Sewells Point, the Naval Base, and Mason Creek; from Campostella, Huntersville, Villa Heights, Park Place, and Colonial Place to Cromwell Farm, Ward’s Corner, Monticello Village, and Willoughby Bay; from Brambleton, Roberts Park, Lindenwood, Lafayette Terrace, Winona, and Roland Park to Suburban Park, Monticello Village, Oakwood Park, Lenox, and Ocean View; from Riverside Park, Ingleside, Bowling Park, Ballentine Place, Norview, and Coronado to Chesapeake Manor, Oakwood Park, Forest Park, and Bayview Beach; from River Forest Shores, Easton Place, Fairlawn, and Admiralty Acres to Camden Heights, Camelia Acres, and Little Creek. And those are just a few of the more than 1,000 different subdivisions and geographic landmarks (and farms and plantations that preceded them) that this series covers and that make up the land – the entire land – of Norfolk.

Unlike any other treatment attempted for Norfolk (indeed, perhaps for any other city in the entire U.S.), the “Every Square Inch of Norfolk Virginia Series” covers all the major topics critical to understanding the complete breadth and depth of the geography of the city. Each of the hefty eighteen books in the series uses actual historical examples, both in words and pictures, to illustrate in minute detail one or more of those key defining topics. Each book, therefore, can separately stand alone, as each offers a rich view of some key parts of the city’s history and geography. And taken together, the series offers an extraordinarily comprehensive panorama of that history and geography.

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