Historical Publications

Chesapeake, A Pictorial History. By Charles B. Cross Jr. and Eleanor Cross, 220 pages, illustrations, index, several hundred photos of Norfolk County/Chesapeake from 1607 to 1985. Reprint 1999. Some illustrations never before published and an excellent area history. $34.95.

The Battle of Great Bridge. By Elizabeth Wingo and Elizabeth Hanbury. Revised Limited edition, 1997. 26 pgs., softbound. Describes the incidents and the people involved in the Revolutionary War's Battle of Great Bridge in Norfolk County, Va., on December 9, 1775. Illustrated with maps and drawings by Wilbur Chadwick. Softbound. $5.00.

Mark Carey's Chesapeake Collection. Ten years of art, history, and humor. By Mark Carey with introduction by Tony Stein, 1998. 248 pages of original drawings documenting the histories of Norfolk County and Chesapeake. Hard bound. List price $50; NCHS price is $35.

A Historic Review. Short articles on the Albermarle & Chesapeake Canal, the Churchland Baptist Church, the Gilmerton Lock of the Dismal Swamp Canal, & several interesting matters from early court records. Norfolk County Historical Society of Chesapeake, 1966, 67 pages, illus. $1 softbound.>

Glencoe Diary ($15 hardbound), War Comes to Glencoe ($10.00 softbound). Civil War diaries of Elizabeth Curtis Wallace and her daughter Katie Darling Wallace. All are limited editions.

Juniper Waterway, A History of the Albermarle & Chesapeake Canal, by Alexander Crosby Brown. Mariner's Museum and Norfolk Co. Historical Society of Chesapeake, 1981. 255 pages, index. An illustrated history that traces the varying fortunes of one of America's most heavily used, commercially important and scenically beautiful man-made waterways. $10.00 hardbound

The Chesapeake: A Biography of a Ship, by Charles B. Cross Jr., 2nd ed., 1973, 86 pages, illus., bibliography. hronicle of the frigate "laid down" at Gosport (Norfolk County) in 1795, its surrender to a British ship in 1807, and its return and capture in the War of 1812. $1.50 softbound.

An Affair of Honor: The Biography of Commodore James Barron, by William O. Stevens. Norfolk County Historical Society in cooperation with the Swem Library of the College of William and Mary, 1968, 198 pages, illus., index. The life of the commodore and the Chesapeake when attacked in 1807, his court martial and resulting duel with Stephen Decatur. $7.50 hardbound.

Around the World in Old Ironsides; The Voyage of the USS Constitution, 1884-1946. Edited by Alan B. Flanders, 1993, 164 pages, photos, nautical charts. A wo and one-half year world voyage as seen through the eyes of Ship's Carpenter Henry Thomas. $11.98 softbound. $14.95 hardbound.

The Defence of Norfolk in 1807 as told by William Tatham to Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Norma L. Peterson. 1970, 108 pages, illus., bibliography, index. Letters to President Jefferson from an observer of the British Navy activities, written at Lynnhaven & Cape Henry, from the prelude to the War of 1812. $1.25 softbound.

Memoirs of Helen Calvert Maxwell Read. dited by Charles B. Cross Jr., 1970. 80 pages, illus., index. Personal account of the opening years of the War for Independence in Virginia, as told to her son by the author $1.50.

Chesapeake Landfalls by Alexander C. Brown, 1970. 200 pages, illus., index. Authentic history of the ships, people and places on the lower Chesapeake Bay & Hampton Roads from 1607 to present. $3.00 softbound.

The County Court by Charles B. Cross Jr., 1984. 150 pages, illus., bibliography, index. Comprehensive history of the Norfolk County court systems since 1637, with accounts of justices, judges, clerks and courthouses. $5.00 hardbound.

From the Archives by Eleanor P. Cross and Charles B. Cross Jr., 1966. 53 pages, illus. Additional early Norfolk County Court cases presented in a most entertaining style. $1.00 softbound.

Tombstone Inscriptions of Norfolk Co., Virginia. Published by the Norfolk Co. Historical Society of Chesapeake, in cooperation with the Great Bridge Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, 1979. 176 pages, illus., index. Tabulation of known graves: names, birth and death dates, and locations. $10.00 softbound

Voyages of Frederick Williams ed. by Eleanor P. Cross, 1972. 175 pages, illus., index. Memories of a German who went to sea in 1818, became a Norfolk resident in 1820, and crossed the Atlantic 137 times in his career. $1.50 softbound.

Battle of Great Bridge Commemorative Plates. Commemorates the battle fought in 1775 during the War for Independence in Great Bridge (Chesapeake) Virginia, when the British forces were soundly defeated and the oyal Governor was forced to begin his flight from Virginia. $15.00.

Notecards of Historic Scenes in Chesapeake, Virginia. old in packets of 10 cards and envelopes. These black and white illustrations recall times gone by. $3.75 per packet.

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