Norfolk County Historical Society
of Chesapeake, Virginia
Preserving and Sharing Chesapeake, VA History Since October 1963
Click below to check out our Slideshow!
Battle of Great Bridge
250th Anniversary
December 6 & 7, 2025
Find Our Publications on Amazon.com
& in the Wallace Room!
Buy many of our classic NCHSC publications via our
Click here to see a list of our publications, covering a variety of historical topics -- from our county courts to the Battle of Great Bridge to our waterways and those who navigated them.
Click here for a list of other publications and items for sale.
Event Calendar
November 2025
Closed
4 & 11 Nov
26 Nov -- 30 Nov
NCHSC Board Meeting via ZOOM
11 Nov 7:00pm
NCHSC Membership Meeting
16 Nov 2:00pm
December 2025
Battle of Great Bridge
Reenactment
6 Dec 10am-4pm
7 Dec 10am-2pm
Closed
24 -- 31 Dec
Happy Holidays!
January 2026
Closed
1 & 19 Jan
February 2026
NCHSC Board Meeting via Google
9 Feb 7:00pm
NCHSC Membership Meeting
15 Feb 2:00pm
Closed
16 Feb
Newsletters
Read past issues of our
NCHSC newsletter, The Historian, below:
Historic Reminiscing
with Robert Hitchings
NCHSC Archivist/Historian & President reminisces:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/history/rbhblogindex.html