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19th-CENTURY BILLHEADS & LETTERHEADS - NORFOLK
alphabetically arranged

Adams & Co.'s Great Eastern, Western and Southern Express, 1853:
(Note how the word "Norfolk" has been written over "Baltimore")
courtesy Old Dominion University Library, Special Collections, Webb Papers

The region of Hampton Roads may be defined most broadly as being all of South Hampton Roads
and the Virginia Peninsula, the tip of the Middle Peninsula, and the corner of northeastern
North Carolina. Specifically, it includes the Southeastern Virginia cities of Chesapeake,
Franklin, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Poquoson, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, and
Williamsburg, counties of Gloucester, Isle of Wight, James City, Mathews, Surry, Southampton,
and York, and town of Smithfield, in addition to North Carolina's Currituck County.

Maps of
Hampton Roads

Click here to see nearly 100 current maps of the Hampton Roads region as well as
Civil War-era maps of the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack (USS Monitor
vs. CSS Virginia), which occurred in the waters known as Hampton Roads (from
which the region takes its name).

Businesses
by category (H-Z)

Military

Pilot staff

Chesapeake

Portsmouth

Norfolk

Virginia Beach

Williamsburg

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