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Rescue is an unincorporated community in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States. Rescue is located on Jones Creek near its confluence into the James River, 4 miles (6.4 km) east-northeast of Smithfield. Rescue has a post office with ZIP code 23424, which opened on October 21, 1889.This historic coastal village began as the subdivision of a farm in 1882. Because of its location on the eastside of the Jones Creek, approximately one-half of a mile from its mouth, it soon became a thriving harbor and a commercial dock for watermen engaged in fishing and oystering. The Jones Creek separates Rescue from Battery Park and Smithfield. As folklore has it, Rescue got its name because it was difficult to get mail to Rescue, which was delivered by mule and on a certain occasion, as the mule appeared in the fishing village; someone yelled that the mail had been “rescued”. With construction of the Rescue Bridge, connecting Rescue and Battery Park, the task of mail delivery was made easier, as well as travels to and from Smithfield. Prior to the construction of the bridge the residents had to go either by boat to Smithfield or drive the long way around by Titus Creek and Fulgham’s Bridge. The location of the bridge marks a historic location with the first bridge being constructed around 1913. The history of the bridge should be preserved as integral part of Rescue’s history. Rescue continues to retain the character of a close-knit rural fishing village and the integrity of this character is intended to be protected in delineating this Village Center. Within the Village Center are homes, two marinas, a restaurant, post office, and a former community center (originally this building was the old Rescue school constructed in 1925, which ultimately served as the meeting place for the Rescue Community League and Ruritan Club). There are also two historic churches located just outside of the Village Center boundaries, Riverview United Methodist Church (founded in 1887) and the Friends Church (founded in 1913). The boundaries of the larger community of Rescue, which begins at the intersection of Boundary Road and Smith’s Neck Road and encompasses lands north and east to the James River, and west to the Jones Creek. Historically, Boundary Road has always been the dividing line separating the Rescue community from the Carrollton area. The historical boundary was used for documenting birth certificates, as well as for school districting. The Jones Creek Boat Landing located at the end of Boundary Road is located in the Rescue community.

Blunt Poynt (also spelled 'Blount Point' or 'Blunt Point') is a historic site located on the north shore of the James River near or in the modern-day Hidenwood neighborhood of Newport News, Virginia. It is named for an incident on July 1610. Sir Thomas Gates was going down the river, and observed an adrift longboat from Fort Algernon near Old Point Comfort. Gates sent Humphrey Blunt to retrieve the boat, but Blunt was ambushed and killed by Nansemond Indians while Gates observed. In retaliation, just a few days later, Gates would seize the native village of Kecoughtan, Virginia. These events were early conflicts leading up to the in the Anglo-Powhatan Wars Because of the early date of this incident, it exists as one of the earliest English place-names in America. The name Blunt Poynt was used as a landmark of reference in some of the earliest land grants and reports of the Colony of Virginia. A marker for the site was erected by the city of Newport News on April 17, 2019.

The Mariners' Lake is a reservoir which was created as part of the natural park on the grounds of the Mariners' Museum and Park located in the independent city of Newport News in the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia. The museum was founded in 1932 by Archer Milton Huntington, son of Collis P. Huntington, a railroad builder who brought the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to Warwick County, Virginia, and who founded the City of Newport News, its coal export facilities, and Newport News Shipbuilding in the late 19th century. Archer and his wife, the sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, acquired 800 acres (3.2 km2) of land that would come to hold 61,000 square feet (5,700 m2) of exhibition galleries, a research library, a 167-acre (676,000 m2) lake, a five-mile (8 km) shoreline trail with fourteen bridges, and over 35,000 maritime artifacts from around the globe. After acquisition took place, the first two years were devoted to creating and improving a natural park and constructing a dam to create a lake that the Board of Trustees named "Lake Maury", after the nineteenth-century Virginian Commodore Matthew Fontaine Maury, who was nicknamed the "Father of Modern Oceanography". The Museum's collection is of an international scope and includes 35,000 artifacts. There are 10 permanent galleries, changing and traveling exhibits, and virtual galleries available through the museum website. The Mariners' Museum is home to the U.S.S. Monitor Center, which officially opened on March 9, 2007, and includes display of a full-scale replica of the ironclad warship Monitor, the original recovered turret, and many artifacts and related items. The famous Union ironclad USS Monitor fought the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia in the Battle of Hampton Roads in March 1862 during the American Civil War. On June 19, 2020, during the George Floyd protests, as references to Confederate figures were being removed from names, The Mariners' Museum's board of trustees voted to rename the lake from "Lake Maury" to "The Mariners' Lake".

Col. Josiah Parker Family Cemetery is a historic family cemetery located near Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia. It is the burial site of American Revolutionary War Colonel, naval officer, and Congressman Josiah Parker (1751-1810). Its location was rediscovered in 2001. The family believes a total of 30 persons are buried at the site.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

Hidenwood is a neighborhood in the independent city of Newport News, Virginia which is located off Warwick Boulevard just west of the campus of Christopher Newport University (CNU). Hidenwood was developed in the 1950s in an area of Warwick County originally known as Nutmeg Quarter in the Colony of Virginia. It was named to honor Philip Wallace Hiden, a local businessman and civic leader.

The Virginia Living Museum is an open-air museum located in Newport News, Virginia that has many living exhibits of Virginia's indigenous species. The exhibits include aspects of an aquarium, science center, aviary, botanical preserve and planetarium.

TowneBank Stadium is located in Newport News, Virginia, and has served as the home stadium for Lionsbridge FC of the USL League Two since 2018 and the Christopher Newport Captains football team since their inaugural 2001 season.The stadium opened in 2001 without the now-present permanent concession stands, restrooms, lights, press box or video board. The concession stands, restrooms and press box were added in 2003. Lights were added in 2011. The 312 square foot video board debuted in 2015.It was previously known as Pomoco Stadium, until it was renamed in 2019, five years after TowneBank pledged a gift of $1,000,000 in 2014 to support CNU's Comprehensive Campaign.The stadium has a maximum seating capacity of 4,200, with the largest crowd ever on-hand of 6,135 occurring during the inaugural game against Salisbury University on September 1, 2001. Lionsbridge FC welcomed its 50,000th fan to TowneBank Stadium in 2022.

Battery Park is an unincorporated community in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, United States. Battery Park is located near the confluence of the Pagan River into the James River 3.3 miles (5.3 km) east-northeast of Smithfield. Battery Park has a post office with ZIP code 23304, which opened on December 28, 1892.

The James River Bridge (JRB) is a four-lane divided highway lift bridge across the James River in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Owned and operated by the Virginia Department of Transportation, it carries U.S. Route 17 (US 17), US 258, and State Route 32 across the river near its mouth at Hampton Roads. The bridge connects Newport News on the Virginia Peninsula with Isle of Wight County in the South Hampton Roads region, and is the easternmost such crossing without a tunnel component. When completed in 1928, the 4.39-mile (7.07 km) bridge was the longest bridge in the world over water. The original two-lane bridge was replaced from 1975 to 1982 with a wider four-lane bridge that could handle increased traffic volumes. In 2005, the bridge carried an annual average daily traffic of about 30,000 vehicles per day.

Christopher Newport University (CNU) is a public university in Newport News, Virginia. It was founded in 1960 and is named after Christopher Newport, captain of one of the ships which carried settlers of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.

Ferguson High School was a high school in Newport News, Virginia, United States. It was named after Homer L. Ferguson, the president of Newport News Shipbuilding from July 22, 1915 until July 31, 1946. It was operated by Newport News Public Schools. The building opened as Warwick Junior High School in 1956 and became Ferguson High School in 1961. The school closed in 1996, and was used by adjacent Christopher Newport University until the early 2000s. Parts of the former school were integrated into the Ferguson Center for the Performing Arts, a theater and concert hall, on the campus of Christopher Newport University.

The Peninsula Fine Arts Center (Pfac) is an art center located in Newport News, Virginia, and is associated with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. It is located at 101 Museum Drive on the grounds of the park surrounding the Mariners' Museum and is accredited with the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). It was formed in 1962 as the Peninsula Arts Association (PAA) by a group of Hampton Roads art supporters. The first official exhibit, staged in 1962, was a visit from a Virginia Museum Artmobile. It is one of less than 12 non-collecting art centers accredited by the AAM.