Norfolk's "Great Annexation"

This fourteenth book of Berent's Encyclopedia of Norfolk Virginia History-Geography covers in exhaustive detail the history-geography of all the areas within Norfolk's seventh annexation, the Great Annexation of 1923, which would triple the size of Norfolk, taking in more than half of what remained of Tanner's Creek Magisterial District (the designation given to the part of Norfolk County north of the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River). The vast territory of the annexation covered an approximately mile-wide swath running from the area known as Campostella (located east of Berkley), northward along the western side of Virginian Railroad tracks towards the area of today's Roland Park, Suburban Acres, and other subdivisions, where it extends northwestward to take in nearly all the lands north of the Lafayette River (as well as the sections known primarily as Edgewater and Larchmont on the southern side of the Lafayette). (Also in the northwestern section are the lands of the Naval Base and what was once the Army Base, both lands covered in this book.)

The northernmost areas extend along the Elizabeth River, Hampton Roads, Willoughby Bay, and the Chesapeake Bay and include West Ocean View all the way to what was the Princess Anne County line. All the following neighborhoods are in the area that this annexation included:

Albemarle, Alfalfa Farms, Algonquin Park, Atlantic Park, Baecher Point, Ballentine Place, Bay View Beach, Bay View Beach, Bay View Forest, Bay View Manor, Bay View Park / Bayview Park, Bell Farms, Belmont Place, Belvedere, Benmoreell, Blairgowrie, Bolling Square, Bollingbrook, Bondale, Bonthorpe Farm, Boulevard Homes, Boulevard Park, Boulevard Terrace, Boush's Bluff, Bowling Green (earlier Bowling Park), Breezy Point, Broad Creek Village, Broaddus Manor, Bruce Park, Campostella, Campostella Heights, Cape View Colony, Carney Park, Chelsea, Chesterfield Heights, Collins Terrace, Colony Point, Conway Heights, Conway Place, Cottage Heights, Cottage Line, Cottage Park, Cottage Place, Cromwell Farm, Daniels Gardens, Diggs Park (Diggs Town), Douglas Park, East Campostella, East Ocean View, Edgemere, Edgewater,

Edgewater Haven, Edgewater Terrace, Ellsworth, Euwanee Park, Fairmount Manor, Fairmount Park, Fairwater, Glen Echo Shores, Glencove

Links/Glencove Estates, Glenhaven, Glenview, Glenwood Park, Gowrie Park, Granby Park, Granby Shores, Grandy Village (earlier Grandy

Park), Gray Manor, Halstead Park, Hampton Court, Hampton Court, Hampton Gardens, Hariton Gardens, Haynes Tract, Holland Park, Holly

Point, Hyde Park Homes, Kenilworth, Kenilworth, Kent Park, Lafayette Annex, Lafayette, and many more suburbs.

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