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Title: Illustrated standard guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth and historical events of Virginia 1607 to 1907
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907)
Publisher: Norfolk, Va., Standard lithographing and publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Point, Huntersville,and Sewells Point, located closely around, will within a veryshort time unite with Norfolk and Portsmouth into GreaterNorfolk. No more admirable location for a great city can be found any-where along the Atlantic Coast, and the coming of GreaterNorfolk, the Metropolis of the South, is as inevitable as therising of the sun toward which the Eastern Gateway of theUnited States opens. Modern business houses have replaced the structures ofcolonial and ante-bellum days. Palatial hotels have arisen as ifby magic. Immense manufacturing plants, great bankinginstitutions, railway systems, and steamship lines concentratedhere indicate the wonderful progress of Norfolk and Portsmouthalong commercial, manufacturing, and agricultural lines. Newresidential sections are quickly becoming densely populated.Beautiful churches point their spires heavenward, and schoolswith unsurpassed facilities evidence the rapid growth andtransformation of Norfolk and Portsmouth into one great city.
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City Hall—Bank Street6 INTRODUCTION TO NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH 7 The Elizabeth River, along which these cities extend theirwharves and docks for several miles, forms the inner harbor, andoffers sufficient depth of waterway for the entrance of the largestships. Hampton Roads, the converging point of the Elizabeth,the James, and the Nansemond rivers, forms the outer harbor.Its great area, ample depth, and sheltered position render it ahaven of perfect safety for mariners seeking protection from out-side storms. Here its waters intermingle with those of Chesa-peake Bay, a vast body of water almost entirely landlocked byCape Charles and Cape Henry, a natural ocean gateway, throughwhich the exports of the central East, Southeast, and Southmake their exit, and the imports of products from all the othergreat nations may make their entrance into this country. Located midway between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and theGulf of Mexico, this harbor is the most magnificent along theAtlantic Seaboard,

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