Title
Resolution Determining Arcadia Publishing, Inc. to be the Only Source Practically Available From Which to Procure Publishing Services Associated With the Text Titled "On This Day in Hampton, Virginia History"
Purpose
PURPOSE/BACKGROUND:
“On This Day in Hampton, Virginia History” (the “Work”) is a compilation, which when finished, will be comprised of approximately 40,000 words, and has entries for each day of the calendar year (except we could not find anything that happened on Leap Day, February 29). Many days have more than one entry, some of them having 5 or more. Any entry gives a vignette of an interesting event, a person’s achievement, or an occurrence which happened on, or was related to, a particular date in the history of Hampton, Virginia and of Elizabeth City County, which was absorbed into Hampton in 1952, but which was one of the original eight shires bounded off by the early English colonists. The prior, Indian name of the place was Kecoughtan, forming an important part of Powhatan’s empire, and events dealing with the Indians, the Spanish (in 1570), and then the English settlement of the area (in 1609, the second place after Jamestown) are included, going back into the 1500s in a few instances. The name “Kecoughtan” was also used for an incorporated town (which lasted about a decade) on the western edge of Elizabeth City County which was absorbed into neighboring Newport News in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The Book covers all Elizabeth City County towns and communities, each now (like the County itself) within the city limits of Hampton: they have long been an integral part of the local story-Phoebus (once called Chesapeake City), Fox Hill, Aberdeen Gardens and Buckroe; two important military bases and the accompanying communities, Langley Air Force Base and Fort Monroe (both inside the county’s former limits); and some events occurring in the navigable waters of nearby Hampton Roads and the adjacent portions of the Chesape...
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