Thanks for taking OCEAN VIEW's
NICKEL TOUR
 Ocean View was named in
the 19th century; <==Click thumbnail. Today you view the lower end of the bay from our
beaches but once, houses at the east end of the resort area overlooked the Atlantic Ocean
beyond Cape Henry.
On naming Norfolk and neighboring areas: The name origin of Virginia (for England's "Virgin
Queen" - Elizabeth I ); Williamsburg
(King William III) Jamestown (King
James I) and Newport News
(Christopher Newport).
Other origins were of the peoples who first settled; U.S. east coast
names quite naturally, derived from merrie olde England. For example, Wessex was the area
where West Saxons lived, Sussex where the South Saxons lived. Relevantly, many names
related to a combination of folk and elements: Norfolk indicated
where 'Northern People' lived and 'Southern People' inhabited Suffolk.
Nearly self-explanatory is Portsmouth
(Port's mouth) but less clearly, Hampton
arose from (OE) ham-tun (ham=home; tun=farm enclosure) or homestead with good
manure.
Chesapeake
is a name derived from the Indians. Incidentally, when Bartholomew Gilbert (for King James
I) explored our area in 1603, he learned the Indian phrase for "the great
water", K'tchisipik which he translated as Chesapeake. Possibly, people and
place names obfuscate 'chicken or egg' issues.
York
from 'yew-tree estate' (or Duke of York), Langley
Long (OE) wood or clearing (OE) leah (or more certainly, Samuel Pierpont
Langley) and of course our own Captain Willoughby.
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Age & beauty are simply, art-- moreso now,
since we've been around the block; we have difficulty recognizing ourselves in the mirror.
 Still,
self-loathing isn't the answer. Botox and lipo isn't either. Character settles into the
lines and should be cherished and honored. We celebrate our history here, and Tour 6 email overwhelmingly agrees with us; but more, it encourages
us to continue in praise of where we've been. Some are seemingly ashamed of our history
and apparently want to cleanse it with PR that actually may be counterproductive, even to
their ends of promoting development which homogenizes what we were and expect to be.
Hopefully, the Tour can encourage more of us to rethink where we are going. Click
thumbnail to enlarge; for glorious detail==>
Lest an occasional reader assumes by this, we want to return to the stone ages, see airport notes.
 We
appreciate all forms of feedback, from suggestions on navigation,
to comments on areas of interest. This is your Ocean View, and your site. We're currently
wanting images of Lewter's at Oscar's Beach and have tried to contact original owners of
the Ebb Tide, for images we've heard about. Corrections, comments & memories
are the lifeblood of this site.
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