Did you know that the neighborhood of Ghent, originally known as Pleasant
Point, was renamed to commemorate the signing of the famous treaty ending the
war of 1812? That before it was annexed by the city of Norfolk in 1906,
Berkley was a separate, self-sufficient town thriving as the region's
manufacturing, shipbuilding and lumber center? Or that the building that
houses the Norfolk Division of the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce in East
Freemason was designed by Thomas U. Walter, the prominent architect who also
designed the dome on the U.S. Capitol building?
These are just a few of the tidbits you'll discover by scrolling through the
following Norfolk neighborhood histories:
