About Christopher Newport University

Christopher Newport University (CNU) is a public campaigner arts university circles in Newport News, Virginia. CNU is the youngest comprehensive academic world in the commonwealth of Virginia. The institution is named after Christopher Newport, who was a buccaneer (or privateer) and captain of Susan Constant, the largest of three ships which carried settlers for the Virginia Company in 1607, on their artifice to found Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, which became the first permanent English deal in North America.

Newport News is an independent city in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 180,719. In 2019, the population was estimated to be 179,225, making it the fifth-most populous city in Virginia.

Newport News is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. It is at the southeastern end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the northern shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe’s Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river’s mouth at Newport News Point on the port of Hampton Roads. The area now known as Newport News was following a allocation of Warwick County. Warwick County was one of the eight native shires of Virginia, formed by the House of Burgesses in the British Colony of Virginia by order of King Charles I in 1634.

In 1881, fifteen years of quick development began below the leadership of Collis P. Huntington, whose further Peninsula Extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway from Richmond opened stirring means of transportation along the Peninsula and provided a supplementary pathway for the railroad to bring West Virginia bituminous coal to harbor for coastal shipping and worldwide export. With the new railroad came a terminal and coal piers where the colliers were loaded. Within a few years, Huntington and his associates also built a large shipyard. In 1896, the other incorporated town of Newport News, which had briefly replaced Denbigh as the seat of Warwick County, had a population of 9,000. In 1958, by mutual ascend by referendum, Newport News was consolidated afterward the former Warwick County (itself a surgically remove city from 1952 to 1958), rejoining the two localities to nearly their pre-1896 geographic size. The more widely known broadcast of Newport News was prearranged as they formed what was later Virginia’s third largest independent city in population.[citation needed]

With many residents employed at the expansive Newport News Shipbuilding, the joint U.S. Air Force-U.S. Army installation at Joint Base Langley–Eustis, and new military bases and suppliers, the city’s economy is extremely connected to the military. The location on the harbor and along the James River facilitates a large boating industry which can take advantage of its many miles of waterfront. Newport News as well as serves as a junction amid the rails and the sea similar to the Newport News Marine Terminals located at the East End of the city. Served by major east–west Interstate Highway 64, it is aligned to further cities of Hampton Roads by the circumferential Hampton Roads Beltway, which crosses the harbor on two bridge-tunnels. Part of the Newport News/Williamsburg International Airport is in the city limits.[citation needed]