NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Dozens of local families on New Years Day visited a place that is critical in the history of Hampton Roads and the entire nation.
“You can’t tell the story of Norfolk or the early colony of Virginia, for that matter, without telling the the story of St. Paul’s,” said Ken Marks, a parishoner at the historic St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Norfolk.
Two hundred-fifty years ago, British troops fired a cannonball that is now embedded in the building, the history of Norfolk and the history of the nation…