 Marker ID:
Local Title:
Hilton Village
Location: Main St. and Warwick Blvd., Newport News VA
23601 Description:
"The
nation's first Federal War Housing project, this planned
community was sponsored by the U. S. Shipping Board and
the Newport News Shipyard on the site of J. Pembroke
Jones' Warwick County farm "Hilton". It was opened July 7,
1918, and sold to private owners after World War I. Street
names in the 100-acre tract of former pine woods
containing 500 English village-type houses honor
government and shipyard officials."
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