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Truxtun Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
Portsmouth Boulevard west of Dahlia Street
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Location	Portsmouth and Deep Creek Boulevards and Manly, Dahlia, Hobson, Dewey and Bagley Sts., Portsmouth, Virginia
Coordinates	36°48′59″N 76°19′4″W / 36.81639°N 76.31778°W / 36.81639; -76.31778
Area	43 acres (17 ha)
Built	1918 (1918)
Architect	U.S. Housing Corporation; Multiple
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	82004581
VLR No.	124-0047
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	September 16, 1982
Designated VLR	April 15, 1980

Truxtun Historic District is a national historic district located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It encompasses 241 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Portsmouth. It was developed between 1918 and 1920 as a planned community of Colonial Revival style single family residences. It was developed by the United States Housing Corporation as a result of the rapid influx of workers at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard during World War I. It was the first wartime government housing project constructed exclusively for African-American residents. In 1921 the Federal Government sold it off.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
3. Lisbeth Lund Coke (April 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Truxtun Historic District" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo and Accompanying map Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Who's who in Colored America". 1942.

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