Description:Chapters: Bower's Hill, Virginia, Western Branch, Virginia, Great Bridge, Virginia, Deep Creek, Virginia, Greenbrier, Virginia, Hickory, Virginia, South Norfolk, Virginia, Eva Gardens, Virginia, Camelot, Chesapeake, Virginia, Forest Lakes, Chesapeake, Virginia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bower's Hill, Virginia - Bower's Hill, which was in now-extinct Norfolk County near the northeastern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, became a crossroads as highways and railroads were built through the area in the 20th century. The natural terrain of the coastal plain of the Tidewater area is very flat and sandy. The combination of U.S. Highway 13, U.S. Highway 58, and U.S. Highway 460, known as the Military Highway, was a 4-lane undivided highway that was built about 1943. A large s-shaped highway overpass was constructed to carry the traffic across the Seaboard Air Line Railroad tracks to eliminate an at-grade crossing and to allow an interchange with Airline Boulevard. The highway there originally was 4-lane undivided with a 45-mph S-curve as the highway passed on a bridge over the railroad, and with short approach fills with considerable grades to the bridge. Although the name Bower's Hill was attached to the area as early as the 19th century, as one of the highest features for miles around, the newly-created overpass at Bower's Hill became something of a landmark for travelers in the 1950s and 1960s before creation of the U.S. Interstate Highway System beginning in 1956. Many people concluded (incorrectly) that the new overpasses were the source of the name. In 1963, the voters of Norfolk County and the independent city of South Norfolk chose to consolidate into a new city, and Chesapeake was formed. Still-rural Bower's Hill became a borough of the ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1428084We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chesapeake, Virginia Communities: Bower's Hill, Virginia, Western Branch, Virginia, Great Bridge, Virginia, Deep Creek, Virginia, Greenbrier. To get started finding Chesapeake, Virginia Communities: Bower's Hill, Virginia, Western Branch, Virginia, Great Bridge, Virginia, Deep Creek, Virginia, Greenbrier, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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32
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Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1157029531
Chesapeake, Virginia Communities: Bower's Hill, Virginia, Western Branch, Virginia, Great Bridge, Virginia, Deep Creek, Virginia, Greenbrier
Description: Chapters: Bower's Hill, Virginia, Western Branch, Virginia, Great Bridge, Virginia, Deep Creek, Virginia, Greenbrier, Virginia, Hickory, Virginia, South Norfolk, Virginia, Eva Gardens, Virginia, Camelot, Chesapeake, Virginia, Forest Lakes, Chesapeake, Virginia. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bower's Hill, Virginia - Bower's Hill, which was in now-extinct Norfolk County near the northeastern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, became a crossroads as highways and railroads were built through the area in the 20th century. The natural terrain of the coastal plain of the Tidewater area is very flat and sandy. The combination of U.S. Highway 13, U.S. Highway 58, and U.S. Highway 460, known as the Military Highway, was a 4-lane undivided highway that was built about 1943. A large s-shaped highway overpass was constructed to carry the traffic across the Seaboard Air Line Railroad tracks to eliminate an at-grade crossing and to allow an interchange with Airline Boulevard. The highway there originally was 4-lane undivided with a 45-mph S-curve as the highway passed on a bridge over the railroad, and with short approach fills with considerable grades to the bridge. Although the name Bower's Hill was attached to the area as early as the 19th century, as one of the highest features for miles around, the newly-created overpass at Bower's Hill became something of a landmark for travelers in the 1950s and 1960s before creation of the U.S. Interstate Highway System beginning in 1956. Many people concluded (incorrectly) that the new overpasses were the source of the name. In 1963, the voters of Norfolk County and the independent city of South Norfolk chose to consolidate into a new city, and Chesapeake was formed. Still-rural Bower's Hill became a borough of the ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1428084We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chesapeake, Virginia Communities: Bower's Hill, Virginia, Western Branch, Virginia, Great Bridge, Virginia, Deep Creek, Virginia, Greenbrier. To get started finding Chesapeake, Virginia Communities: Bower's Hill, Virginia, Western Branch, Virginia, Great Bridge, Virginia, Deep Creek, Virginia, Greenbrier, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.