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USS Newport News (CA–148) was the third and last ship of the Des Moines-class of heavy cruisers in the United States Navy.She was the first fully air-conditioned surface ship and the last active all-gun heavy cruiser in the United States Navy.
Two ports of embarkation were established with commanders appointed 17 July 1917, one at New York with headquarters at Hoboken and the second, then officially the Newport News Port of Embarkation, in Hampton Roads with headquarters at Newport News.
In 1886, Huntington established Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company. The boom community of Newport News became an independent city in 1896 by an act of the Virginia General Assembly, one of the few cities in Virginia to have never been incorporated as a town and it became Virginia's third largest city in population at one time.
Newport is an unincorporated community in Giles County, Virginia, United States, with the ZIP code of 24128. The 2020 Census reports a population of 1,767 in the community. [ 2 ] It is located in a valley between Salt Pond Mountain, Sherman's Nose and Gap Mountain.
Additionally, Norfolk is part of the Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA-NC Combined Statistical Area, which includes the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA, the Elizabeth City, North Carolina Micropolitan Statistical Area, and the Kill Devil Hills, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area. The CSA is the 32nd largest in the nation with an estimated ...
Virginia's postal abbreviation is VA and its FIPS state code is 51. List of the 95 counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia (links shown under FIPS County Code are for the U.S. Census Bureau Statistics Info Page for that county):
Newport News Marine Terminal (NNMT) at Newport News, Virginia; Virginia International Gateway (VIG) at Portsmouth, Virginia; and one intermodal container transfer facility : Virginia Inland Port (VIP) at Front Royal, Virginia; A site on the harbor at nearby Craney Island has been identified for future expansion.
1886 – Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Company (later Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.) in business. [4] 1888 – Warwick County seat moves temporarily to Newport News from Denbigh. 1889 Newport News Light & Water Company in business. [1] YMCA branch organized. [5] 1890 Citizens Railway (Hampton-Newport News) begins operating. [6]