by Sears Homes | Jan 27, 2018 | Uncategorized |
After that last blog, Milton, Mark and David (three faithful researchers that have been with me since the start of this project) went to work to find Alleyne’s last name. This morning, I found an email from Mark Hardin, explaining that he’d found Alleyne. ...
by Sears Homes | Mar 13, 2016 | Uncategorized |
Larchmont is a prestigious neighborhood in Norfolk, filled with stately Colonial Revivals, Cape Cods, Dutch Colonials and Neo-Tudors from the 1920s and 30s. As far as older neighborhoods go, Larchmont is one of Hampton Roads’ most expensive communities, and...
by Sears Homes | Mar 8, 2016 | Uncategorized |
While reading the Newport News Daily Press, I stumbled upon a little item in the 1923 paper that connected a lot of dots. In the article (from the Associated Press), Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels explained that during The Great War, the Navy had stationed...
by Sears Homes | Mar 6, 2016 | Uncategorized |
We found Pottstown, and it isn’t the one in Pennsylvania. About a month ago, I wrote a blog about a mystery school house mentioned in the Newport News Daily Press. The story, from December 1922 said that the school would soon be built for African-American...
by Sears Homes | Oct 19, 2015 | Uncategorized |
The older I get, the more I realize, I just love history, and as is evidenced by the Addie blogs, I have a special passion for the story of the women in my family. My beloved mother died about 13 years ago, and not a day goes by that I don’t think about her. She...
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