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Lambert's Point Described, 1893
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"Lambert's Point Described" (Pictures in Maritime Dixie, by A. Morrison, Norfolk, 1893, p. 45)
"...Several land companies have enlisted with it [N&W RR] to promote settlement at this place, and have succeeded in building up a very respectable town…. Seven or eight have had a hand in it: the Lambert's Point Company,  Lambert's Point Land Company, Lambert's Point Company of Norfolk, Pocahontas Land Company, Norfolk Building and Investment Company, and Lambert's Point Building Company. Philadelphia capitalists, who are interested also in the Norfolk and Western Railroad, are backing these concerns…. They have improved an area to the north of about 600 acres, and between 200 and 300 residences and stores have been put up, all told, to house and supply the employes of the railroad and other concerns here. The place has many advantages for such a settlement. It drains to the river, is sightly and healthful and accessible by means of a ferry making regular trips, by Norfolk and Western trains on regular schedule, and by the Bowden's Ferry road. An electric street railroad to it from the city is also contemplated.
Aside from the piers and the railroad improvements and works, the most important enterprise established at Lambert's Point is the Lambert's Point Knitting Mills (see the Park Place Annexation section…..). These mills were built and equipped at an expense of $100,000 by Norfolk capitalists a year or two ago, and are employing now about 200 hands...."
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