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Ferguson Park
Location: Harpersville Road, Newport News VA Description:
"To provide emergency accommodation for shipbuilders
on the eve of World War II, the U. S. Navy set up a 5,000
person housing development in 1940 on 68 acres between
Warwick Road and James River. The first tenants moved into
100 prefab buildings in the fall of 1941. Ferguson Park,
which honored Shipyard President Homer L. Ferguson (1873 -
1953), was vacated and razed beginning Sept. 1, 1965. Nine
streets bore names of Newport News-built warships."
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