Bounded by the James River, Post St., Chesapeake and Ohio RR tracks, and Hopkins St., Newport News (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Newport News.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 23, 1969. NRIS 69000341.
Hilton Village is a planned English-village-style neighborhood in Newport News, Virginia. Recognized as a pioneering development in urban planning, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The neighborhood was built between 1918 and 1921 in response to the need for housing during World War I for employees of Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company. It is recognized as the United States' first Federal war-housing project.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41682107