Benefit Road News Today

Construction crews have spent the last 4 months restoring the old Cornland schoolhouse. It was originally built in 1902 for African American students.

The Cornland School was built in 1903 and for 49 years served as a place for African Americans to receive an education. Efforts are underway to turn it into a museum

This summer, the school will be uprooted from its historic perch and relocated. It will become a museum and the centerpiece of a $9 million historic center that...

The Cornland School is believed to be the oldest African American school in Hampton Roads that was built before the Rosenwald school movement.

By Brown CarpenterThe Virginian-Pilot The quiet, bucolic life enjoyed by residents of southern Chesapeake is being interrupted, some of them say, by an unsightly symbol of technological progress: the cell phone tower.Two recent applications for tower use permits in rural neighborhoods have spurred protests from people who live nearby. They have shown up at Planning Commission and City Council meetings to oppose the structures, which are rapidly showing up on the American landscape as sales of ce...