Norfolk and the surrounding region had been the site of human habitation for thousands of years before the arrival of English settlers in the early 1600s. The Chesopeian, or Chesapeake Indians, lived in and around Norfolk prior to 1607. They were part of the Eastern Algonquian Indians cultural group. Their society, religious beliefs, and culture would have been similar to the other tribes that were included in the Powhatan Chiefdom, as well as tribes in Delaware and New England up the Atlantic Seaboard. They were hunter-gatherers and corn farmers, also consuming the local shellfish and fish since they lived along the water. They likely

spoke a dialect similar to the other tribes within the Powhatan Chiefdom. As for the history of the Chesopeian tribe, very little material exists aside from some English references made during the settling of Roanoke Island in the 1580s and of Jamestown in 1607. The earliest mention is during October-November, 1585, when a group of Roanoke Island colonists traveled north to the Chesapeake Bay region to meet with local tribes and to seek food sources. The English stopped at Skicoak, the Chesopeian capital, on their trip to the Chesapeake Bay. William Strachey reported that the Chesopeians had three villages: Skicoak, Apasus, and Chesepiooc. Over the years, archaeologists have found evidence of the Chesopeians having lived in the Great Neck/Lynnhaven Bay area of present-day Virginia Beach. Skicoak is believed to have been located in Norfolk, probably where the Eastern and Southern branches of the Elizabeth River meet. Its exact location, however, may never be known. The Chesopeian tribe was more aligned with the Nansemonds and the Eastern North Carolina tribes, including those around Roanoke Island. They resisted Chief Powhatan’s efforts to be included in his growing chiefdom. A prophecy by Powhatan’s priests would seal their fate. Chief Powhatan (Wahunsenacawh) was told of a prophecy that a powerful group was rising in the East to take over his chiefdom. This was either before or during the April, 1607 English arrival. He ordered the Chesopeian tribe destroyed,

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Mary Denson Pretlow, Head Librarian of the Norfolk Public Library, established the Sargeant Memorial Collection (SMC) in 1927 with only a small assortment of books and historical papers collected by William Henry Sargeant. Sargeant was the first Librarian to be hired by the City of Norfolk in 1897, and he felt very strongly that Norfolk needed a history room de-voted to local history and people. The current non-circulating collection contains a variety of books and periodicals about Norfolk and Virginia, as well as Norfolk maps, photographs, high school yearbooks, and city directories for the Hampton Roads region. Nearly 200 years of Norfolk newspapers on microfilm are avail-able. SMC’s genealogy collection encompass-es Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, and other nearby states and includes books, mi-crofilm, and CDs to assist in family research. Today, the Sargeant Memorial Collection offers, without doubt, one of Virginia’s finest local history and genealogy collections.

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The Sargeant Memorial Collection temporarily located in the Mary D. Pretlow Anchor Branch Library.

Websites for information from local history and genealogy organizations: Norfolk Historical Societynorfolkhistorical.org

Norfolk County Historical Societyinfopeake.org/nchs.asp

African American Historical Society of Portsmouthblackhistoryportsmouth.org

Princess Anne County & Virginia Beach Historical Societyvirginiabeachhistory.org

Virginia Beach Genealogical Societyvbgsva.org

Recent Acquisitions:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

n Perry Bussard of Norfolk, VA – Books.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

n Ruby Burley of Norfolk, VA – Pictures, Ships and Ocean View picture.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

n Bill Inge of Norfolk, VA – Photographs of 1931 downtown waterfront fire, photographs of storm scenes from 1933 and 1936, and four Peninsula telephone directories from 1942-1948.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

n Joan Kanter of Norfolk, VA – Five books.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

n Jack Mace of Norfolk, VA – Newspaper articles and books.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

n Jenny Willcox of Chicago, IL – Willcox, Tun-stall, Martin, Tilley family papers, scrapbooks, and photographs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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n Campbell, R. Thomas. Academy on the James: The Confederate Naval School, (1998). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

n Jones, Nancy Bondurant, Linwood H. Rose, and Ronald E. Carrier. Rooted on Blue Stone Hill: A History of James Madison University, (2004). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

n Nutt, Joe. Historic Houses of Augusta County, Virginia: Pen & Ink Drawings of Fifty-Two Homes with Historical Narratives, (2007). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

n Nutt, Joe. Historic Houses of Staunton, Virginia: Pen & Ink Drawings of Fifty Homes, (2008).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

n Ramsey, Janet R. Contraband Slaves: Richmond Daily Dispatch 1860-1865, (2013).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

n Lott Carey School class photograph from March, 1921.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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believing them to be the group foretold in the prophecy. His decision was not a difficult one, as the Chesopeians were his enemies. From the scant evidence that is available, it appears that the tribe was effectively wiped out. Their former villages were then repopulated with members from Powhatan’s tribes or from other nearby groups. If there were any Chesopeian survivors, they were captured and integrated into other Powhatan tribes. The time frame of their elimination is questionable, but it appears they had disappeared by the time Captain John Smith explored the Elizabeth River in 1608. Today, the only remnants of the tribe can be found in subdivision and street names, along with the occasional discovery of buried stone points (arrowheads) and tools.

Sources:

Haile, Edward Wright. Jamestown Narratives: Eyewitness Accounts of the Virginia Colony, the First Decade, 1607-1617. Champlain, VA: RoundHouse, 1998.

Rountree, Helen C. The Powhatan Indians of Virginia: Their Traditional Culture. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

Rountree, Helen C. Pocahontas Powhatan Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.

New Acquisition:1921 Lott Carey School’s Miss Indiana S. Williamson Class Picture

We wish to thank our donors for their monetary donations to the Sargeant Memorial Collection. Recently, we were able to purchase this wonderful 1921 image of Miss Indiana S. Williamson’s sixth grade class at Lott Carey School from an online vendor with SMC donated funds. Lott Carey, one of Norfolk’s early African-American grade schools, was

located on the corner of E. Princess Anne Road and Smith Street in Huntersville. Your monetary donations allow us to purchase rare materials like this to add to our collection, and we greatly appreciate it! For more information on how to make a monetary donation to the Sargeant Memorial Collection, please see the bottom of Page 7 of this issue.

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On the night of October 8, 1928, an audience estimated at over a thousand packed the Wells Theater to hear Paul Whiteman and his thirty piece orchestra. The Whiteman band, which had arrived the night before from New York City, was staying at the Monticello Hotel. The Norfolk concert was their first stop on a long tour that took the band through the South and Midwest, and concluded in Chicago. The two hour program at the Wells included jazz and novelty numbers, interspersed with classical and semi-classical works. Among the latter were George Gershwin’s {1898-1937} “Concerto in F” for solo piano and orchestra {1925}, with Roy Bargy as soloist, and a new composition, “Metropolis: a Fantasy in Blue” by Ferde Grofe {1892-1972}. Grofe, who was best known for his “Grand Canyon Suite” {1931}, was at that time Whiteman’s orchestrator and arranger. For an encore, the band performed Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” again with Bargy as the soloist. The Whiteman band had

given this work its world premiere in 1924, with Gershwin as the soloist. Incidentally, all three of the above mentioned works were given their first commercial recordings by the Whiteman orchestra. Paul Whiteman {1890-1967} formed his first group in California in 1918 and arrived in New York City two years later. His tag line, the “King of Jazz,” was a misnomer. While the Whiteman band did play a fair amount of jazz, it also performed {and recorded} a number of compositions that were in a more serious vein. But, there can be no doubt that Whiteman hired many of the finest jazz musicians of that era, including the legendary coronettist Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke, trumpeter Bunny Berigan and trombonist Jack Teagarden. Among the vocalists who sang with Whiteman were Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, and Johnny Mercer. The reviews in both the Virginian-Pilot and in Ledger-Dispatch were highly favorable. Douglas Gordon, reviewer for the Ledger-Dispatch, noted that “not even Stokowski nor any of the others can make a band, an orchestra, play with such amazing unity as Paul Whiteman

has achieved and achieves every time he plays in public.” Joseph Leslie, writing for the Virginian-Pilot, commented that the “Norfolk concert was a decidedly pleasing affair, not only to the ear, but to several of the other senses–an interesting affair, as well.”

Sources:

“Famous Whiteman Orchestra To Play At Wells Tonight.” Virginian-Pilot And The Norfolk Landmark. October 8, 1928.

“Whiteman Concert Thrills Hundreds At Wells Theater.” Virginian-Pilot And The Norfolk Landmark. October 9, 1928.

“Only One Whiteman And Only One Whiteman Band.” Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. October 9, 1928.

Photograph of Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra from the late 1920’s, from the collection of Duncan Schiedt. Whiteman is standing in the center, with Roy Bargy and Lennie Hayton seated at the piano. C-Melody saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer is standing behind the tuba and famed

coronettist Bix Beiderbecke is third from the right on the back row.

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“There are bands and bands and orchestras and orchestras and then there is –Paul Whiteman. And he played here last night –thanks be!”

Douglas Gordon. The Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. October 9, 1928.

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Unbuilt Norfolk:The High-Rise Hotel

That Never Was

What would have been Norfolk’s tallest building and its first major downtown hotel since the Jamestown Exposition, never got any further than the design and planning stage. News of the $2.2 million, 364 room hotel was announced in the October 14, 1944 edition of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. The unnamed hotel would be 16 stories in height, including two penthouse floors to house the air conditioning and elevator equipment. It would be Norfolk’s tallest building; surpassing both the 13 story National Bank of Commerce and the 12 story Royster Building. The new hotel would be located at the northwest corner of Boush and West York streets, with entrances from both streets, while the lobby faced York Street. Each of its 364 rooms, furnished in the “latest style,” would have a private bath and circulating ice water. A ballroom, capable of seating 500 persons, a 250 seat main dining room, several smaller dining rooms, and space for three shops would also be included. The hotel would be of fireproof construction, with a granite, limestone and brick exterior. Designed in the International Style, it would have been quite modern, albeit very plain, in appearance. Unlike the heavy classical detailing

found in the older Monticello, Southland and Thomas Nelson hotels, the new hotel was

almost completely devoid of architectural embellishments to the point of severity. According to an article in the Virginian-Pilot the following day, the hotel “will be named in honor of some distinguished figure in naval history, probably a flag officer of the United States or Confederate Navies peculiarly identified

with the history of Hampton Roads.” Title to the property would be held by the Admiral Hotel Corporation. Hugh Dickson of Atlanta, Georgia, president of the corporation, remarked that the War Production Board had “long realized the acute need for another hotel in Norfolk, and considered it essential in the war effort in order to provide accommodations for those called to Norfolk in connection with the war effort.” Hotel management would be under the direction of Affiliated National Hotels, out of Galveston, Texas.

David H. Goodman, of the Goodman-Segar Corporation, Realtors, would handle the assemblage and purchase of the real estate. The new hotel was designed by Angelo Robert Clas {1887-1970}, a Washington, D.C. architect, with Alfred M. Lublin {1906-1960} of Norfolk as associate architect. Lublin was quoted in the Virginian-Pilot as saying the hotel “will represent the last word in modern construction with nothing left out to make it the country’s most up to date.” Clas was formerly associated with the great Chicago architectural firm of Holabird & Root. Together, they collaborated on the

Architectural rendering of the prospective hotel. From the front page of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, October 14, 1944.

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Norfolk Historical Society’s 2013 Second Wednesday SeriesDec. 11 • 7 pm Battle of Big Bethel: Crucial Clash in Early Civil War Virginia New book by Michael Cobb (Curator of the Hampton History Museum), Edward Hicks and

Wythe Holt. Book signing follows.

All presentations are held in the Theater, MacArthur Memorial Museum, at 198 Bank Street in Norfolk, Virginia.

The presentations start at 7 PM with light refreshments following and are free to public. Parking is available in

the south garage of MacArthur Center Mall ($2 after 6 PM). For more information, please contact Peggy Haile

McPhillips, (757) 664-7328 ext 377.

SMC’s African American Genealogy Class

Saturday, February 1, 2014 @ 2 - 4 PMPretlow Anchor Branch Library

1st Floor Meeting Room

This class is for genealogists researching African American families

from Norfolk and other places in the United States. The class is divided into two sections: the

first part of the session discusses print resources with suggestions on how to conduct research, and the second part highlights

resources found online. Space is limited to 20 people per class. Please register in advance at (757) 664-7485. Cost: Free.

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design of the 12 story Lafayette Building in Washington {1940}, which today is on the National Register of Historic Places. Lublin, one of the region’s most accomplished architects, was born and educated in Germany. He came to Norfolk in 1938 to set up his own architectural practice. In 1945, Lublin, along with John B. McGaughy, a Norfolk civil engineer, organized the firm of Lublin, McGaughy & Associates. Among the many notable works by this firm include the former Kirn Memorial Library and Leigh Memorial Hospital’s Smith-Rogers Memorial Hall. This firm is still in business today as the MMM Design Group. Construction of the new hostelry was to start in December, 1944, with Muhleman & Kayhoe of Richmond and Washington as contractors. However, it was not to be. For reasons unknown, the hotel was never built, despite the apparent dire need for a new, modern hotel. Downtown Norfolk would have to wait until June, 1961 when the Golden Triangle Motor Hotel opened for business. As for the Boush and York Street site, fulfillment of a hotel at this location arrived 65 years later in 2009 with the opening of the Residence Inn by Marriott.

“War-congested Norfolk urgently needs this new hotel facility. Post-war Norfolk will need it too, for nothing is more certain than that the city will emerge from the war period permanently enlarged, with commercial, maritime, air transport and tourist demands for hotel accommodations that will be beyond the ability of our present hotel resources to satisfy.” – Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. October 15, 1944.

Sources:

“364-Room Hotel to Be Built Here; Cost $2,200,000.” Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. October 14, 1944.

“16-Story Hotel, 364 Rooms, Costing $2,200,000, to Be Built In Uptown Norfolk.” Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. October 15, 1944.

“The Mid-Town Hotel Project.” Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. October 15, 1944.

The Norfolk Public Library Foundation has set up seven different endowments to enhance and improve the collections, technology, programming and buildings of the Norfolk Public Library system. In particular, the Sargeant Memorial Collection (SMC) Endowment was established to preserve and protect fragile and often one-of-a-kind items in the library’s local history collection. In conjunction with the 80th birthday of the SMC, the NPL Foundation announced in 2007 its campaign to raise over $1.5 million dollars for the SMC Endowment. A donation or inclusion in your estate planning will be greatly appreciated. If you have questions, please contact Sonal Rastogi at (757) 664-7328 or go to www.npl.lib.va.us then click on “Support NPL.”

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On-going SMC Genealogy Workshops

Beginning Genealogy – Search wills, deeds, marriage and other court records. Space is limited to 12 people per class. Register in advance at (757) 664-7485.

Pretlow Anchor Branch Library – 1st Floor Meeting Room

Saturday, December 7th @ 2 – 4 PM

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SMC staff offers the following workshops, free to the public, at Pretlow Anchor Branch Library. For more information or to register for a class, please call (757) 664-7485 or email: localhistory@norfolk.gov

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How to Use On-line Genealogy Databases – Learn how to use Ancestry.com genealogy database and other online genealogical resources. Space is limited to 15 people per class. Please register in advance at (757) 664-7485.Pretlow Anchor Branch Library – 1st Floor Meeting RoomSaturday, January 18th @ 2 – 4 PMSaturday, April 12th @ 2 – 4 PM

Digital Genealogist – A nuts and bolts class on how to be a digital genealogist. Learn the basics of scanning family papers, photographs, and other items. Also learn how to safeguard your family’s digital heritage and how to organize your family’s digital files. Space is limited to 15 people per class. Please register in advance at (757) 664-7485.Pretlow Anchor Branch Library – 1st Floor Meeting RoomSaturday, March 15th @ 2 – 4 PM

Dr. Daniel R. Alonso of Norfolk, VA Lesa D. Archie-Barnes of Norfolk, VALouise Boykin of Suffolk, VARuby Burley of Norfolk, VAPerry Bussard of Norfolk, VABlanche C. Chappell of Norfolk, VA Gale C. Garner of Norfolk, VA Claudia Z. Graham of Norfolk, VA Robert R. Hull of Norfolk, VABill Inge of Norfolk, VA

Joan Kanter of Norfolk, VAGregory Y. Kim of Norfolk, VA Robert M. Latimer of Norfolk, VA Harvey L. Lindsay, Jr. of Norfolk, VA Jack Mace of Norfolk, VA Susan E. Meier of Norfolk, VAMerrie J. Milner of Norfolk, VA Dr. Edward C. Oldfield III of Norfolk, VAWilliam T. Prince of Norfolk, VA Shirley N. Sellers of Norfolk, VA

Robert C. Siik of Norfolk, VAMark H. Tabakin of Virginia Beach, VA Blane Walker of New York, NYJames M. Weckerly of Norfolk, VA Dr. G. William Whitehurst of Norfolk, VAJenny Willcox of Chicago, ILDr. Robert Wojtowicz of Norfolk, VA

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On this Veteran’s Day, we remember all our Norfolk residents who fought to defend this country in conflicts around the world. The following images are of some of Norfolk’s World War I veterans: (left to right) Arthur Little, Richard Baker Taylor,

Willie Fulford, and Demetrios Galanides.

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