Hampton, Virginia, isn’t a city that waits for the headlines to catch up.
In this list, twelve facts surface: from the oldest continuously inhabited English settlement in America to the classroom legacy of Syms-Eaton Academy, where free public education began before the nation had a name for it.
One takes you back to the moment the first Africans set foot at Old Point Comfort. Another still moves, a 1920s carousel, hand-carved and restored, standing where summer crowds once gathered.
Some stories are built in brick, like Aberdeen Gardens; others are mapped in the names of Mercury astronauts…