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Marker ID: Local Title: Morrison Location: Harpersville Road, Newport News VA Description: "A station named for Col. J. S. Morrison, construction engineer of the Peninsula Division, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, was built in the Warwick County hamlet of Gum Grove on the completion of the line between Richmond and Newport News on Oct. 16, 1881. Morrison post office was established Feb. 2, 1883, and a public school was recorded in a deed dated Aug. 16, 1906. This was to become Warwick High in 1948. In World War I Camp Morrison was activated nearby."   BACK

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