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NORFOLK CITY, Virginia in the 1890s: 1 through 10 of 12

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  1. Catholicism and other denominations in the South
    date August 19, 1890 to 1890map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Church/Religious-Activity

    According to Edward Ayers, religion was a Southerner's way of life and they often justified or condemned something based on religion. Myriad Christian denominations were active in the South including Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist, Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant, and Quaker, however; the Baptist denomination claimed the largest following. The Norfolk Virginian, like other newspapers, would often...

  2. Norfolk Virginian reports on tobacco output
    date July 23, 1891 to 1891map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy

    The Norfolk Virginian reported the acres of farmland that grew tobacco and the pounds of tobacco harvested as a result in 1891. There were various counties and big producers included Amherst, Bedford, and Prince Edward. Many of these counties resided in the Central Virginia region. 24,034 planters planted on 110,579 acres and produced 48,522,655 pounds of tobacco according to the last census. The...

  3. Advancement of Health and Sanitation in Central Virginia
    date July 23, 1891 to 1891map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Health/Death, Law, Migration/Transportation, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In the city of Norfolk on July 21, 1891, Dr. Morgan Health officer of Norfolk County, examined the dairies and livestock in the city. The Norfolk Virginian reported on the results and also wrote about other issues the Board of Health addressed. According to the newspaper, he examined 475 animals with an output of 768 gallons. Dr. Morgan's examination yielded results of 15 dairies in good condition...

  4. Railroads; the new form of transportation in the South
    date July 23, 1891 to September 1, 1896map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Agriculture, Economy, Migration/Transportation

    Newspapers, like the Portsmouth Star were filled with railroad advertisements displaying the price and rates for which a passenger could travel from Portsmouth to Virginia Beach, Petersburg, Philadelphia, and even New York with no more than a day of travel for even the farther distances. A company called the Bay Line and Pennsylvania railroad offered to take people in Norfolk to the Niagara Falls for...

  5. Annual Public School Report of Superintendent
    date September 7, 1894 to 1894map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Education, Race-Relations, Women

    In the Portsmouth Star, Superintendent John C. Ashton reported the public school demographics for the year ending July 31, 1894. The school year was in session for 195 days in three districts. There was racial segregation at this point with seventeen schools for white children and seven for colored children. There were a total of 3,610 school-aged children and of that number 1,545 were actually...

  6. Portsmouth Star calls attention to water purification
    date September 5, 1896 to 1896map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Health/Death, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    During the late nineteenth century, urbanization prompted mass migrations of southerners to cities. This caused crowding within the cities and soon sanitation became an issue. Despite the problems, it was not until the last two decades of the 1800's that cities started addressing this problem. However, once it started in one city, others started following suit. Portsmouth was one of these cities...

  7. Black Witness
    date July 31, 1897 to 1897map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Law, Race-Relations

    The passing of Mrs. Lucinda Todd was not a surprise to her family, after all her health had been suffering for sometime. Though Mrs. Todd's passing initially appeared peaceful, the true happenings behind her death were revealed in the subsequent battle for ownership of Mrs. Todd's will. On July 31, 1897 Judge Burroughs resided over the court that was set to declare the official executer of Lucinda...

  8. The Portsmouth Star calls for the repairing of the neglect of the South
    date May 3, 1898 to 1898map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Government, Politics, War

    The South had been neglected according to the Portsmouth Star. The newspaper accused the US, then in the middle of war with Spain, of being reluctant to spend any more of the government's money in the South than has seemed absolutely necessary. The US would regret spending so little on the South especially when the majority of the war was being fought on the front of the Southern coast. Therefore,...

  9. Stole a Pocketbook
    date January 5, 1899 to 1899map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On January 5, 1899 the Virginian-Pilot reported that a young black male in the town of Portsmouth, Virginia had stolen the pocketbook of a lady whose services he was filling. While this petty incident of crime was relatively unnoticed, buried in the middle of the paper, the style in which the brief story was written illustrates the social opinions in this southern city. The story goes on to describe...

  10. Pensioning Confederate Soldiers
    date February 3, 1899 to 1899map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Health/Death, Politics, War

    On February 3, 1899, an aging Confederate soldier from Portsmouth, identifying himself only as C.M.B. wrote to the Virginian-Pilot in response to Senator Marion Butler's proposed bill that would open up federal pension plans to all veterans of the Civil War. Despite a divide among many Southerners about the honor of accepting federal pension, C.M.B. argues, Why then should ex Confederates prefer to...

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