Merrimac Shores
Merrimac Shores is a neighborhood in Hampton, Virginia. Merrimac Shores is situated nearby to the neighborhood Sussex at Hampton, as well as near Kecoughtan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Little England Chapel and Herbert House.
Little England Chapel
Church
Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Little England Chapel was founded by George C. Rowe. A printer at Hampton Institute, Rowe began the Sunday school with three Newtown children, in a small section of his home.
Herbert House
Historic house
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Herbert House is a historic plantation home located at Hampton, Virginia. It was built in 1753 on the point of land where the Hampton River meets Sunset Creek near Hampton Roads, and is a two-story, U-shaped, brick and frame Georgian style dwelling.
Joseph S. Darling Memorial Stadium
Stadium
Joseph S. Darling Memorial Stadium, located in Hampton, Virginia, serves primarily as a high school football stadium, and also hosts various track-and-field meets, as well as marching band competitions.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kecoughtan and Wythe.
Kecoughtan
Neighborhood
In the seventeenth century, Kecoughtan was the name of the settlement now known as Hampton, Virginia. In the early twentieth century, it was also the name of a town nearby in Elizabeth City County. It was annexed into the City of Newport News in 1927.
Wythe
Suburb
Wythe is a neighborhood in Hampton, Virginia, along the water's edge of Hampton Roads, at the end of Virginia's Lower Peninsula. It is named after one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence, George Wythe. Wythe is situated 1½ miles west of Merrimac Shores.
Phoebus
Suburb
Photo: Kubigula, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Phoebus is a formerly incorporated town now part of the present-day city of Hampton, Virginia, on the Virginia Peninsula. In 1900, it was named in honor of local businessman Harrison Phoebus, who is credited with convincing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to extend its tracks to the town from Newport News. Phoebus is situated 1½ miles northeast of Merrimac Shores.
Merrimac Shores
- Type: Neighborhood
- Category: locality
- Location: Hampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.00793° or 37° 0′ 29″ northLongitude
-76.34994° or 76° 20′ 60″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
87952M52+52OpenStreetMap ID
node 157599990OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
4772743
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