Newport News, VA Hotels

Near Newport News

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This is the current conditions weather report for Newport News. The report was made 22 minutes ago, at 06:54 UTC. The wind was blowing at a speed of 9 miles per hour / 14.8 kilometers per hour from the south southeast (160°). The temperature was 64°F / 18°C, with a dew-point at 64°F / 18°C. The atmospheric pressure was 29.88 inHg / 1013 hPa. The relative humidity was 78%. The skies were overcast.

Newport News is an independent city in Virginia. It is on the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the north shore of the James River extending to its mouth at Hampton Roads. The name of Newport News has long been a puzzle to those curious about the origin of place names.

The first settlement on the site of Newport News was made in 1621 by planters brought from Ireland by Daniel Gookin, who selected the site on the advice of Sir William Newce and his brother Captain Thomas Newce. On the edge of Elizabeth City County, it was earliest an unincorporated town without formal boundaries in Warwick County for over 250 years. Beginning in 1881, 15 years of explosive development began under Collis P. Huntington, who built a new railroad, coal piers, and a large shipyard. In 1896, Newport News, which had been the county seat of Warwick County, became a separate city from the county.

Among the city's major industries are Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, owned by Northrop Grumman, and the large coal piers supplied by railroad giant CSX Transportation. Miles of the waterfront can be seen by automobiles crossing the James River Bridge and Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel. Recovered artifacts from the USS Monitor are displayed at the Mariners' Museum, and American Civil War battle sites near historic Lee Hall and several plantations have been protected along the roads leading to Yorktown and Williamsburg of the Historic Triangle.

Christopher Newport University is located within the city, and Hampton University, Old Dominion University and The College of William and Mary are located nearby.

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