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  1. The Portsmouth Fire of 1821
    date March 21, 1821map NORFOLK CITY, Virginiatags Economy, Urban-Life/Boosterism, Women

    At around 2:45 a.m. on the morning of Wed., March 21, 1821, a fire broke out in the kitchen of a vacant tenement on the corner of Main and Market Streets in Portsmouth, Virginia. The Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald of Friday, March 23 reported that owing to the violence of the wind, which was blowing at the time a perfect gale from S. S. W., and the combustible nature of the buildings, the fire spread...