Fair @ Sewell's Point (Was: 1907 - Great Lakes To Norfolk)

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I never knew until now that much of the Norfolk Naval Base  ("NOB  
Norfolk" in the early 50s) was once a fair site!  My father was  
stationed at NOB Norfolk in '49 -'51 (I was 11 - 13 at the time) and  
I'd frequently ride with my mother when she would go there to pick  
him up after work.  (As I've said many times earlier in this site, we  
lived beside the VGN main a few blocks west of Wards Corners during  
this time.)

pete groom

On Mar 11, 2007, at 7:18 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

As additional info, in 1907 the Jamestown Exposition was held at  
Sewells Point in Norfolk, VA (not Jamestown as would be expected) to  
celebrate the 300th anniversary of the founding of the first  
permanent English settlement in this country, and the N & W produced  
a 17-page Jamestown Exposition handbook, a copy of which is in the  
NWHS archives.  . . . 
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