Sunray Agricultural Historic District, Chesapeake

Name: Sunray Agricultural Historic District
Address: Chesapeake, United States

#19 among attractions in Chesapeake

Neighbourhood, Colonial revival architecture

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Sunray Agricultural Historic District, Chesapeake

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Sunray Agricultural Historic District is a national historic district located at Chesapeake, Virginia. The district encompasses 188 contributing buildings, 90 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in the early 20th-century immigrant farming community of Sunray. It includes early 20th century vernacular farmhouses, agricultural buildings, Sunray School, and St. Mary's Catholic Church. The district also includes a tidal ditch system, the abandoned Virginian Railway Tracks, and agricultural fields laid out with the platting of 1908. ()

Coordinates: 36°46'51"N, 76°24'40"W

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Sunray Agricultural Historic District – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Chesapeake Square, Greenbrier Mall, Bide-A-Wee Golf Course, Bowers Hill Interchange.

3.2 miN
Shopping, Shopping centre
Chesapeake Square, Chesapeake
81 min walk • Chesapeake Square is a 717,282 square feet regional mall in Chesapeake, Virginia, in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. The mall has approximately 70 stores, four anchors, several eateries at the mall's food court including one restaurant: Big Woody's.
3.2 miN
Shopping, Shopping centre
Greenbrier Mall, Chesapeake
82 min walk • Greenbrier Mall is a nearly 900,000 sq ft regional mall in Chesapeake, Virginia, United States in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. The mall has a hillside terrain, with entries on both upper and lower levels. It serves communities on the east coast in the states of Virginia and North Carolina.
4.2 miE
Golf
Bide-A-Wee Golf Course, Portsmouth
108 min walk • Bide-A-Wee Golf Course is an 18-hole municipal public golf course founded by former PGA Champion Chandler Harper in 1956 located in and owned by the city of Portsmouth, Virginia.
~1940 ftNW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Bowers Hill Interchange, Chesapeake
10 min walk • The Bowers Hill interchange is a large interchange complex where the Hampton Roads Beltway intersects with Interstate 264 as well as Military Highway, which carries the three U.S. Highways.
5.6 miNW
Church
Glebe Church, Suffolk
143 min walk • Glebe Church is a historic Anglican church in Driver, Virginia and its surrounding glebe. The church was built in 1737–1738, and is a rectangular, gable-roofed, brick church measuring 48 feet, 6 inches, by 25 feet, 4 inches. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
6.7 miNE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Pinners Point Interchange, Portsmouth
170 min walk • The Pinners Point interchange is the interchange complex in Portsmouth, Virginia, where State Route 164 intersects U.S. Route 58 as it leaves the Midtown Tunnel and turns southerly on the Martin Luther King Freeway.
6.5 miNE
Museum
Portsmouth Community Library, Portsmouth
165 min walk • Portsmouth Community Library, also known as the Portsmouth Colored Community Library, is a historic library building located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It was built in 1945 at 804 South Street. It is a one-story, three bay, brick building with a hipped roof. It was built to provide for the reading needs of Portsmouth's African Americans.
5.3 miNE
Cemetery
Evergreen Memorial Park, Portsmouth
136 min walk • Evergreen Memorial Park is a cemetery in Portsmouth, Virginia, United States. The earliest burials date back to 1906..
5.4 miE
Neighbourhood, Colonial revival architecture
Cradock Historic District, Portsmouth
138 min walk • Cradock Historic District is a national historic district located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It encompasses 759 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in a primarily residential section of Portsmouth.
6.1 miNE
Neighbourhood
Port Norfolk Historic District, Portsmouth
157 min walk • Port Norfolk Historic District is a national historic district located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It encompasses 621 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a primarily residential section of suburban Portsmouth.
7 miNE
Interesting neighbourhood
East Radford Historic District, Portsmouth
178 min walk • East Radford Historic District is a national historic district located at Radford, Virginia. It encompasses 302 contributing buildings and 5 contributing structures in a mixed residential and commercial section of Radford, comprising most of the historic boundaries of the town of Central Depot.