Frederick Military Academy - Cannon Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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This monument on downtown Court Street was raised to commemorate Ports- mouth’s Civil War dead. Just behind it can be seen the historic old Court House. On Sunday morning, March 9, 1862, the squat U.S.S. Mon- itor engaged the C.S.S. Vir- ginia (formerly the Merri- mack), in battle in Hampton Roads. The Virginia had been converted to an ironclad at Gosport Navy Yard, now Nor- folk Naval Shipyard, Ports- mouth. 6

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Norfolk’s new Kirn Library. The tidewater area is one of the most pro- gressive sections in the country and can well boast of its accomplishments in the areas of urban renewal and of its wide variety of cultural and recreational facilities. The urban area has lifted itself out of the stagnation of the past and is on its way to becoming the great metropolis it has always been destined to be. Twilight view of down- town Norfolk and Ports- mouth.

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Pictured here is Norfolk’s historic Old St. Paul’s Church. The church was the only structure left standing after Nor- folk was bombarded and burned by Lord Dunmore’s fleet, anchored in the Eliza- beth River. Trinity Episcopal Church on High Street is on land donated by William Crawford, Found- er of Portsmouth. Its grave- yard contains the graves of many revolutionary war figures.