Norfolkball (Virginia)

Norfolkball is a cityball located in southeast Virginiaball, specifiaclly in Hampton Roadsball. It's the 3rd largest city in the great dominion, behind Chesapeakeball and Virginia Beachball. Being established by Englandball, Norfolk is a very old city, UNLIKE THIS BABY, being founded in 1632, but hasn't been incorporated until 1705. Norfolkball is widely considered (majority by Norfolkball themself) to be the epicenter of Hampton Roadsball, as it has the history, architecture and culture to be considerd so. In Hampton Roadsball, Norfolkball is right at the mouth of the James River, bordering Chesapeakeball to the west and Virginia Beachball to the east. OOH and not to mention, but Norfolkball holds the capital of NATOball!! (In North America)
(and has some cool shipies where USAball stores their navy)
 Norfolkball has a fond interest in mermaids (It's known as the mermaid city) and you will normally find mermaids stuck to him
==History==
===Great City of Skicoak===
In 1584, Englandball tried to colonize the Americas, and in a nutshell, it didn't go well. but hey, while they were at it, Kingdom of Englandball heard of a tale by the native Chesipianballs of their greatest city up north.
Years later, Jamestownball looked around Hampton Roadsball for their grand city of Skicoak, but didn't find nothing. however, there could be some evidence pointing towards the idea that this grand city did exist. The mystery continues on...
===Revolutionary War===
 Norfolkball was a British Suckup during the Revolution and thus, in 1775, Lord Dunmore The goofy ahh name tried to take control of the rest of the Colony from Norfolkball. Later, militias from Hampton Roadsball marched to Norfolkball as Dunmore was there, waiting for rumored Patriot troops coming up from The Carolinas, trying to take southern Hampton Roadsball () from the British. However, these troops turned to be phony, and the British Empireball then took on the Militia at the Battle of Kemp's Landing. To make a long story short, the Brits won.
 Dunmore decided if he wanted to win this war, then he would have to gain the support of the Virginians. But he also knew White Anglo-Saxon Colonists wouldn't join him. So Dunmore decided to issue a proclamation to the Enslaved Population, where he promised that if the Brits won, they would get their freedom. (IF they joined the British Forces)
In November, Dunmore set up a fort in the middle of Norfolkball, and destroyed around 30 houses while doing so. A couple days later, Dunmore got word of his defeat at The Battle of Great Bridge, in Chesapeakeball, and later fled with his troops to a ship, finally ending 168 years of British rule in Virginiaball
===Economic Expansion and Economic Recession ===
A couple years after the Revolutionary War, a fire took place in Norfolkball near the center of town and destroyed around 300 Buildings, a major setback for Norfolkball. However, from there, it was all (or mostly) up. USAball decided to build a fort on Norfolk's clay, called, well, Fort Norfolk, to protect the harbor. This is considered by some to be the start of USAball's heavy military presence in Norfolk and Hampton Roadsball
Agricultural communities in southern Norfolk, (present day Chesapeakeball) were experiencing heavy hardship, and a lot of them moved to other parts of the South, majority places where land was cheap and fertile, unlike the hard to farm in Dismal Swamp. This made Norfolkball's population drop about 15,000, which was sort of odd considering other cities in Virginiaball were growing at the time, such as Roanokeball, Virginia Beachball and NoVa.
=== Propositions to end Slavery ===
 Virginiaball was struggling with slavery, and they knew it. There were multiple propositions to ending it, such as just phasing it out through law, but the winning idea was to send the Black Population to establish a colony in Africa, specifiaclly Liberiaball. The ACS was established, and multiple former slaves mainly from North Carolinaball and Virginiaball set sail for Liberiaball from Norfolkball. In fact, the first president of Liberiaball was from Norfolk.
==Relations==
===Positive Relationships===
* Virginia Beachball - My neighbor! Has great beaches so I make sure to always go there. Also had some encounter with Norwayball, but tbh, I don't know much about it. I am way older than them, which I make sure to flex onto them, but they don't seem to care. Probably the most chill out of the HR Gang.
* Richmondball - Cool city, I guess. Hates Chesapeakeball which makes me feel alot better. Had the Queen over for tea at some fancy place and also has some cool nicknames for places. Also capital of the State.
===Negative Relationships===
* Chesapeakeball - THE WORST ABSOLUTE WORST POSSIBLE CREATION ON THIS EARTH. IT USED TO BE MY TERRITORY BUT IT COULDN'T HANDLE THE NAWFICK STYLE SO IT LEFT LIKE THE DISGRACE IT IS. I HOPE THE DISMAL SWAMP DROWNS IT ONE DAY!!!!!
==Gallery==
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