Truxtun Historic District

{{short description|Historic district in Virginia, United States}}

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Truxtun Historic District

| nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes

| designated_other1 = Virginia Landmarks Register

| designated_other1_date = April 15, 1980{{cite web|title=Virginia Landmarks Register|url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources|accessdate=19 March 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921053819/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm|archivedate=21 September 2013}}

| designated_other1_number = 124-0047

| designated_other1_num_position = bottom

| image = Truxton, Portsmouth west of Dahlia.jpg

| caption = Portsmouth Boulevard west of Dahlia Street

| location= Portsmouth and Deep Creek Boulevards and Manly, Dahlia, Hobson, Dewey and Bagley Sts., Portsmouth, Virginia

| coordinates = {{coord|36|48|59|N|76|19|4|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Virginia#USA

| built = {{Start date|1918}}

| architect = U.S. Housing Corporation; Multiple

| architecture = Colonial Revival

| added = September 16, 1982

| area = {{convert|43|acre}}

| refnum = 82004581{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

}}

Truxtun Historic District is a national historic district located at Portsmouth, Virginia. It encompasses 241 contributing buildings in a primarily residential section of Portsmouth. It was developed between 1918 and 1920 as a planned community of Colonial Revival style single family residences. It was developed by the United States Housing Corporation as a result of the rapid influx of workers at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard during World War I. It was the first wartime government housing project constructed exclusively for African-American residents.{{cite web |url=http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Portsmouth/124-0047_Truxtun_HD_1982_Final_Nomination.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Truxtun Historic District |author=Lisbeth Lund Coke |date=April 1980 |publisher=Virginia Department of Historic Resources }} and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Portsmouth/TruxtonHD_Photo.htm Accompanying photo] and [http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Portsmouth/Portsmouth_20101005.pdf Accompanying map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927025625/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Portsmouth/Portsmouth_20101005.pdf |date=2012-09-27 }} In 1921 the Federal Government sold it off.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rQRAQAAMAAJ&dq=richard+pollard+mcclain&pg=PA336|title=Who's who in Colored America|year=1942}}

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.