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Article: CRAWFORD CREATED A LASTING PORT CITY 250 YEARS AGO.(LOCAL)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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Unfortunately, the plantation home of Col. William Crawford, the man who founded what is now the city of Portsmouth 250 years ago, has long since been swept away by the inexorable tides of time. Even so, an advertisement that appeared in a local newspaper 115 years later enables us to pinpoint where it was located.
On Feb. 21, 1867, the paper offered the following property for sale: ``To be sold, the site where formerly stood the residence of William Crawford, who laid off and founded Portsmouth.'' In expanding on this advertisement, Marshall W. Butt in his ``Portsmouth Under Four Flags 1752-1970,'' published by the Portsmouth Historical Association and the ...