Lincolnsville, Portsmouth, Virginia [color]

Atlas of the City of Norfolk and Vicinity Including the City of Portsmouth
From the Official Records, Private Plan and Actual Surveys
Published by  G.M. Hopkins, C.E.
320 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
1889
Plate 13

Many thanks to Gregg Grunow,*
Manager of Library Systems and Support Services, Portsmouth Public Library and his staff for locating this map.

*Gregg recently became Director of Culpeper County Public Library.
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“Lincolnsville was the first community set aside for blacks in 1890 in an area that would later be annexed to Portsmouth. It would be the forerunner to Truxtun, a federally funded black community for the Norfolk Naval Shipyard workers. … The community was about 30 acres in size and ran north of North Street; west of Washington Street, Green Street and the Gas House; south of Emmett Street; and east of Fort Lane and Cedar Grove Cemetery.”

Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Mae Breckenridge-Haywood, and the African American Historical Society of Portsmouth. Portsmouth, Virginia (Black America Series). Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2003, page 51

 

Note: A black-and-white version of this map will be published November 25, 2019.