+ The Mariners' MuseumĪmerica’s National Maritime Museum”, The Mariners’ makes a difference in peoples’ lives, inviting them to discover their relationship to the sea by exploring maritime culture, science and history. In 2005, the house was placed on the Virginia Civil War Trails as a museum site. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Fields House was just one of fifteen properties owned by Mr. Other than the city jail's infirmary, this institution represented the only outlet for hospitalization for blacks, and provided two years of generous service to the black community. In 1908, four doctors pooled their savings and asked the Fields family for use of the top floor to start a hospital. Fields as his law office and primary residence from 1897 to 1903. Fields House is historically significant for its long association with the development of the social and civic life of the African-American community in Newport News. Permanent exhibit on Lawyer Newsome and changing exhibits available for public viewing. Listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register, the National Register of Historic Places and Recipient of a 1992 National Historic Preservation Award. His elegant Queen Anne residence served as the hub of the local black community from which he led the fight for social justice within Virginia. Newsome was a respected attorney, journalist, churchman and civic leader and a member of the postwar Civil War South's new urban African-American middle class. Thomas Newsome and his wife Mary Winfield Newsome. The restored 1899 home of the African-American attorney J. "To me, it's an amazing place.The Newsome House honors the legacy of Lawyer and Editor, Joseph Thomas Newsome by engaging the public in an ongoing study and remembrance of African American history and culture. It needs a lot of love, but it has so much potential," Henry said. "It's a great synergy of people who care… about nature. This project has been made possible by volunteers from the Peninsula Master Naturalists, Boy Scout and Cub Scout troops and packs, the Navy and other community volunteers who have given physical labor, including clearing brush, pulling invasive plants and defining the trail. Who knows, this just opens up another area of interpretation as far as the history of the site," said Laura Willoughby, Endview historic site coordinator. "It would be nice if we could one day identify where the other cemetery is. "People plant things for a reason… It's just a matter of finding out why." Naturalists have also found circumstantial evidence of a lost slave cemetery on the trail – traces of periwinkle, a tell-tale sign of old graves, Henry said. "There's only one, so someone planted it," she said. There is also a spicebush which Henry refers to as "poor man's potpourri" because it was historically used as fragrant wipes before indoor plumbing, she said. There are overgrown privets that may have once lined a driveway and a daffodil field where volunteers pulled 1,000 bulbs during the clean-up. The trail is blooming with plant history. You'll have totally different plants within a hundred yards of each other." "The interesting thing about this trail versus a lot of other trails is its different habitats. "There's a lot to see in a very short amount of time," she said. It's the same water source that drew people to the land and has diverse woody and marshy habitats in proximity, Henry said. The trail is centered on a small natural spring that begins at Lebanon Run and feeds into the Newport News Reservoir, said Tim Greene, Endview's education specialist. "It's just really cool to have something that you can take from wildness and bring it back to 'Oh, God, wouldn't this be a cool way to teach… about the history of the plantation and a little bit about what they used?" she said. The goal is to lay a defined trail, identify and tag plants and produce an educational brochure for visitors, said Daina Henry, a lead volunteer and master naturalist. Restoration began in June when Peninsula Master Naturalists identified 23 species of birds and 47 types of plants and trees on the quarter-of-a-mile long trail. But by next spring it will resemble the wildlife that Peninsula Campaign soldiers saw in the area 150 years ago, according to a naturalist who is leading the restoration effort. Currently the trail is overgrown with invasive Japanese stiltgrass and pawpaws. NEWPORT NEWS – A Civil War trail is being restored at Endview Plantation this summer. Naturalists and organizations are working together to restore a trail at the Endview Plantation in Newport News. The following article is featured here with permission from The Daily Press about the work of alumnae and adjunct professor Daina Henry '81, Ed.S.
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