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South Norfolk
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South Norfolk, Chesapeake, Virginia
South Norfolk was incorporated as a town in 1919. The City of Chesapeake was created with the merger of Norfolk County and the City of South Norfolk in 1963. The city's history dates back much further. Chesapeake is the site of the battle of Great Bridge which took place on December 9, 1775, just a few hundred yards from where City Hall stands today.
Chesapeake is also the site of the Great Dismal Swamp and the South Norfolk Historic District.
Chesapeake is in fact a community of communities, each with its own distinctive history, and South Norwich is a district that is struggling to keep its community identity alive.
Still very active is the South Norfolk Library.
The first South Norfolk library was sponsored by the Women's Club of South Norfolk and opened its doors with a donated collection in Lakeside Park in 1953.
 In May 1956, the library moved to a rented building at 1015 Chesapeake Avenue where it remained until 1958 when the building at the corner of Poindexter and Decatur Streets was constructed.
Linwood L. Briggs, Jr., as mayor of South Norfolk, was instrumental in proposing construction of the South Norfolk Library as a memorial to those who lost their lives in World War II. During his years of dedicated service, Mr. Briggs collected historic photographs of South Norfolk.
On September 26, 1997, the literacy room was dedicated to Mr. Linwood L. Briggs, many of his collected historic photographs of South Norfolk are displayed in the History & Literacy Room.
Raymond L. Harper is the current historian whose researches have made a firm base for the memory and continued being of South Norfolk within the Chesapeake complex.
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