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A monument in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia to the fifteen local medical volunteers who perished during the Norfolk and Portsmouth yellow fever epidemic. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. At its best, history opens a window in time that helps illuminate the past and the present. Such is Encyclopedia Virginia’s new entry on the long-forgotten Norfolk and Portsmouth Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1855, contributed by Addeane Caelleigh, who also wrote the You aren’t alone if you’ve never heard of this epidemic, which was one of the worst in the history of the United States. But in the decade before the Civil War, a yellow fever outbreak of such ferocity hit Norfolk and Portsmouth in the late summer and early autumn of 1855 that a good part of the population fled the low-lying port cities, the city governments ceased to function, and the local economies collapsed. ....
EV) is a reliable and user-friendly resource on the history and culture of Virginia. Encyclopedia Virginia anthologizes the best and most current scholarship that exists on a given topic. A project of Virginia Humanities in partnership with the Library of Virginia, EV publishes topical and biographical entries written by scholars, edited to be accessible to a general audience, and vigorously fact checked. Content creation is a work in progress, with new entries published regularly. Entries are accompanied by primary documents and media objects, including images, audio and visual clips, and virtual tours of historic sites. Many of our media objects are unavailable elsewhere and are published courtesy of partnerships with museums and cultural institutions in Virginia, the United States, and Great Britain. ....