Air Power Park
Air Power Park is a museum in Hampton, Virginia which is located on West Mercury Boulevard. Air Power Park is situated nearby to the golf course Peninsula Golf Club, as well as near Saint Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Church.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Air Power Park and Bluebird Gap Farm.
Air Power Park
Park
Photo: William Grimes, Public domain.
The Air Power Park is an outdoor, roadside museum in Hampton, Virginia which recognizes Hampton's role in America's early space exploration and aircraft testing.
Bluebird Gap Farm
Park
Bluebird Gap Farm is a public city park and petting zoo located in Hampton, Virginia, at 60 Pine Chapel Road. It is designed to resemble a working farm, and features farm animals and fowl of all types, and wild animals native to Virginia. Bluebird Gap Farm is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Air Power Park.
Hampton National Guard Armory
Historic building
Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hampton National Guard Armory is a history military facility at 504 North King Street in Hampton, Virginia. A large brick building with Moderne styling, it was built in 1936 with funding support from the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration, and is one of the few surviving armories built in the inter-war period in coastal Virginia. Hampton National Guard Armory is situated 1½ miles southeast of Air Power Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aberdeen Gardens and Kecoughtan.
Aberdeen Gardens
Neighborhood
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Aberdeen Gardens is a national historic district located at Hampton, Virginia, United States. The district was part of a planned community initiated by Hampton University under New Deal legislation. Aberdeen Gardens is situated 2 miles southwest of Air Power Park.
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. Kecoughtan is situated 2½ miles southeast of Air Power Park.
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 3 miles south of Air Power Park.
Air Power Park
- Type: Museum
- Address: 413 West Mercury Boulevard, Hampton, 23669
- Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Hampton, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.04332° or 37° 2′ 36″ northLongitude
-76.36633° or 76° 21′ 59″ westOpen location code
87952JVM+8FOpenStreetMap ID
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