Old Dominion Land Company

found: NUCMC data from Newport News Public Library for Its Records, 1880-1949(Old Dominion Land Company; land company org. 1880 to develop real estate in Newport News and Warwick, Elizabeth City, James City, and York cos., Va.; acquired by railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington in the course of developing Newport News as the Atlantic terminus for a continental railway system; company responsible for laying out city, establishing city's first church and bank, initial utilities, schools, etc.; company purchased 1925 by group of Newport News businessmen who continued the company's community involvement until company was dissolved late 1940s)