19th Century Histgory, The City of Norfolk
19th Century History - The City of Norfolk, VA.:
"1852 - Margaret Douglass, a white woman from South Carolina, is arrested and spends a month in jail for teaching free black children to read and write in a school in her Norfolk home.
1852 - Ordinance passed in Norfolk prohibiting cows to go at large in the city.
1855 -- Steamer Ben Franklin arrives in Hampton Roads with Yellow Fever on board. Epidemic spreads through Norfolk and by 11 August about one-half the population had fled. The epidemic raged until October, by which time one-third of Norfolk's inhabitants, 2,000 people, had died.
1856 -- St. Vincent's Hospital (later DePaul) is founded in Norfolk by the Sisters of Charity in the home of Ann Behan Herron, who had died the previous year of Yellow Fever and left her entire estate to the Catholic order for the purpose of establishing a hospital
1859 - United States Custom House completed.
1861 - Virginia secedes from the Union. Richmond becomes Capital of the Confederacy.
1861 -- Slaves fled from Norfolk to Fortress Monroe and Union General Benjamin Butler labeled them as 'contraband'.
1861 - Norfolk voters instruct their delegate to vote for ratification of the Ordinance of Secession
1861 -- Vessels at Norfolk Navy Yard, including the Merrimac, burned and scuttled.
1861 - the first local encounter of the Civil War took place at Sewell's Point
1862 -- The Merrimac, rebuilt as an ironclad and renamed Virginia, was built at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The first battle between ironclads - the Virginia and the Monitor - was fought in Hampton Roads.
1862 -- Mayor Lamb surrendered the City to Union troops. Federal forces under the command of General Benjamin Butler occupied Norfolk until 1865.
1863 -- Emancipation Proclamation went into effect but did not apply to Tidewater.
1861-1865 - Princess Anne County and much of Norfolk County were under Union occupation for the duration of the war
1866 - First black-owned newspaper in Norfolk, the True Southerner, published by former slave Joseph T. Wilson.
1867 -- The United Order of Tents, J.R.G. and J.U., one of the most important African-American women's lodges in the country, officially organized in Norfolk. Founded by 2 slave women, Annetta M. Lane of Norfolk and Harriet R. Taylor of Hampton, with the aid of 2 abolitionists, Joshua R. Giddings and Joliffe Union, whose initials are incorporated in the title.
1867-68 --- Dr. Thomas Bayne (former slave Sam Nixon) represented Norfolk at the Virginia Constitutional Convention.
1870 - End of Reconstruction in Norfolk. Union occupation troops withdrawn and Virginia is readmitted to the Union. African-Americans throughout Hampton Roads are elected to state and local offices. After the Civil War, Norfolk County's rich waterways and fertile farmland enabled it to recover quickly from the destruction of the war. In Norfolk, industries and railroads opened the way for transportation of coal to our port, the beginning of trade that made Norfolk the greatest port in the world."
"1852 - Margaret Douglass, a white woman from South Carolina, is arrested and spends a month in jail for teaching free black children to read and write in a school in her Norfolk home.
1852 - Ordinance passed in Norfolk prohibiting cows to go at large in the city.
1855 -- Steamer Ben Franklin arrives in Hampton Roads with Yellow Fever on board. Epidemic spreads through Norfolk and by 11 August about one-half the population had fled. The epidemic raged until October, by which time one-third of Norfolk's inhabitants, 2,000 people, had died.
1856 -- St. Vincent's Hospital (later DePaul) is founded in Norfolk by the Sisters of Charity in the home of Ann Behan Herron, who had died the previous year of Yellow Fever and left her entire estate to the Catholic order for the purpose of establishing a hospital
1859 - United States Custom House completed.
1861 - Virginia secedes from the Union. Richmond becomes Capital of the Confederacy.
1861 -- Slaves fled from Norfolk to Fortress Monroe and Union General Benjamin Butler labeled them as 'contraband'.
1861 - Norfolk voters instruct their delegate to vote for ratification of the Ordinance of Secession
1861 -- Vessels at Norfolk Navy Yard, including the Merrimac, burned and scuttled.
1861 - the first local encounter of the Civil War took place at Sewell's Point
1862 -- The Merrimac, rebuilt as an ironclad and renamed Virginia, was built at the Norfolk Navy Yard. The first battle between ironclads - the Virginia and the Monitor - was fought in Hampton Roads.
1862 -- Mayor Lamb surrendered the City to Union troops. Federal forces under the command of General Benjamin Butler occupied Norfolk until 1865.
1863 -- Emancipation Proclamation went into effect but did not apply to Tidewater.
1861-1865 - Princess Anne County and much of Norfolk County were under Union occupation for the duration of the war
1866 - First black-owned newspaper in Norfolk, the True Southerner, published by former slave Joseph T. Wilson.
1867 -- The United Order of Tents, J.R.G. and J.U., one of the most important African-American women's lodges in the country, officially organized in Norfolk. Founded by 2 slave women, Annetta M. Lane of Norfolk and Harriet R. Taylor of Hampton, with the aid of 2 abolitionists, Joshua R. Giddings and Joliffe Union, whose initials are incorporated in the title.
1867-68 --- Dr. Thomas Bayne (former slave Sam Nixon) represented Norfolk at the Virginia Constitutional Convention.
1870 - End of Reconstruction in Norfolk. Union occupation troops withdrawn and Virginia is readmitted to the Union. African-Americans throughout Hampton Roads are elected to state and local offices. After the Civil War, Norfolk County's rich waterways and fertile farmland enabled it to recover quickly from the destruction of the war. In Norfolk, industries and railroads opened the way for transportation of coal to our port, the beginning of trade that made Norfolk the greatest port in the world."
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