Boom & Bust: Newport News, Virginia
Resting at the tip of the Virginia Peninsula, Newport News currently stands as Virginia's 5th most populous city, with a 2013 population around 182,000. Newport News: Once Vibrant, Now Neglected During Virginia's earliest days, the colony was actually divided up into 8 "shires," a form of local government borrowed from 17th century English legal practices. The [...]