Driving over the Brambleton Avenue bridge west of downtown, anyone glancing north might be reminded of a European city.
The view is of a body of water called the Hague that skirts a neighborhood built around the turn of the last century. Stately Dutch Queen Anne, Shingle Style and Colonial Revival homes, set on small lots, face the crescent-shaped seawall along Mowbray Arch.
At the east end, the Hague ends at the Chrysler Museum of Art, with its Italianate architecture. At the other end is a handsome view of Christ and St. Luke's Episcopal Church, which resembles an English cathedral.
But why would this modest, Y-shaped inlet in Norfolk be named for the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands?
Because two Dutchmen helped developed Ghent. From: Virginian Pilot 9/24/12
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Norfolk
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23507
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VA
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