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Market Square
Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Original Author: S. Weekes, engraver
Created: 1845
Medium: Engraving

Market Square, Norfolk

This engraving, titled Market Square, Norfolk and published in Henry Howe's Historical Collections of Virginia (1845), depicts the bustling commercial marketplace overlooking the city's harbor.

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Virginia Humanities acknowledges the Monacan Nation, the original people of the land and waters of our home in Charlottesville, Virginia.


We invite you to learn more about Indians in Virginia in our Encyclopedia Virginia.