Soon after the establishment of America's first English settlement, Jamestown, in 1607, colonists began to explore and develop land adjacent to the complex of bays and harbors known as Hampton Rhodes. On July 9, 1610, British colonists took over the Indian village of Kekutan, located in the mouth of the Hampton River, and established their own settlement with an Anglican church, which became the oldest of the ever-present English settlements in America. In 1619, the Virgin Colony was divided into four "cities", and these places became part of Elizabeth Cittie. After the bankruptcy of the London company, Virginia became a crown colony and was divided into eight "counties"; in 1634, the locations were part of the Warwick River Shire, renamed Warwick County in 1643. It was an agricultural region that provided land for farms and plantations; In 1704, 125 private properties were registered here. Since 1810, the district authorities have been held by Denbigh.

In 1837, Colis Huntington, 16, was in the village of Newport News Point and became a major railroad tycoon. When the U.S. civil war was followed by the Era of Reconstruction, in the 1870’s Williams Wickham attracted Huntington to the construction of railways in Virginia. The railways allowed for the development of coal deposits in West Virginia, but a deep-sea port for coal removal was required; The York River in Richmond was too shallow for coal transports. Huntington decided that the southeastern part of Warwick district was the best place to transport coal from rail to sea, and in 1881 the railway line to Newport News began; The farmer's coastal region has become a fast-growing port.

The construction of a railway to these sites was the first part of Huntington's Virginia development plan. In 1886, he built the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company shipyard to repair ships arriving at the coal terminal. In 1891, the shipyard built its first ship, the tugboat Dorothy. By 1897, Newport News had built three large ships for the US Navy: Nashville, Wilmington, and Helena canoners.

For a short time, the Worik district authorities moved to Newport News from Denbai, where they had been stationed since colonial times. But Newport News grew so rapidly that, by a General Assembly decision in 1896, Virginia Newport News became an independent city (one of two in the state), having passed the traditional intermediate stage of an "incorporated city." As the basis of the city's economy was shipbuilding, the concepts of "Mayor Newport News" and "head of the shipyard" became, in fact, interchangeable, and the city developed in accordance with the logic of development and maintenance of the shipyard.

In 1952 the Worik district was transformed into an independent town of Warwick. In 1958, Warwick and Newport News residents voted in a referendum to merge the two cities into one, for which the name was taken Newport News.

Newport News Shipbuilding, 1923

The city is known primarily as one of the centers of American shipbuilding. Huntington Ingalls Industries, the largest industrial enterprise in Virginia, is located in the city in terms of employment.

Northrop Grumman's "Newport News Shipbuilding" shipyard is one of the largest enterprises of the US military shipbuilding, where all nuclear aircraft carriers and a significant part of the US nuclear submarines are built.

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