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Jamestown Exposition Location
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     "The Jamestown Exposition had purchased an initial 340 acres of land extending east from the northern reach of Sewell's Point Road (then and now called Maryland Avenue) to Boush Creek (which has been filled in since, but once flowed into Hampton Roads at the present site of the Naval Air Rework Facility). The water's edge, just north of the present Dillingham Hampton Roads Times Magazine HamptonRoadsTimes.comBoulevard, served as the northern boundary, and the land extended south to the present Taussig Boulevard. West of Maryland Avenue was the tract of land owned by the Pine Beach Development Corporation, the old Norfolk-Hampton Roads Company, which leased a portion to the Exposition...."
(from An Illustrated History of the Jamestown Exposition, Hampton Roads Naval Historical Foundation, n.d., p.4)


  




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