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Newmarket: Mercury Blvd and Orcutt Ave
Newmarket combines a busy commercial corridor with everyday residential surroundings in a way that reflects its urban position within Hampton. Broad arterial streets and low-rise businesses give this part of the city a practical, car-oriented character, while neighbourhoods extend beyond the retail frontage. Hampton belongs to the Hampton Roads area beside Chesapeake Bay, a major natural harbour at the meeting of several Virginia waterways. Its longer story reaches back to the early English colony at nearby Kecoughtan; Fort Monroe, on the city’s waterfront, was completed in 1834 and later played a significant role during the Civil War. Newmarket is part of this working urban fabric rather than Hampton’s waterfront historic district.
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Newmarket is best known within Virginia for its place in the Newport News section of Hampton Roads, on the Virginia Peninsula. The community lies close to the lower James River, which broadens toward Hampton Roads and the Chesapeake Bay, placing it in a setting shaped by tidal water and the urban Peninsula. Newport News Shipbuilding, founded in 1886, has made the wider waterfront an enduring American centre for naval ship construction. Newmarket is best understood as part of a working coastal metropolitan area rather than a separate resort destination. Continue through nearby webcams to explore different parts of Newmarket and the Virginia Peninsula.
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