Dec 16 '17 Hilton Village: An enduring sense of place in Newport News for 100 years Established in 1918, Hilton Village, in Newport News, Virginia, was the first public housing project built in the United States. Spurred on by Newport News Shipbuilding President Homer Ferguson, it was created to house shipyard workers during World War I. The village was the city’s first planned community and its first National Register of Historic Places […]
Sep 2 '17 Ford’s Colony Then and Now 30 years in The 30th anniversary and the planned celebration of Ford’s Colony Day is next month, here is a timely review of the origins of the community which appeared in the most recent Talk of The Colony newsletter Early American history surrounds the area that we now call home. The establishment of the Jamestown Colony (about five […]