By Stephanie Lee
THE MARKERS BELOW show streets, neighborhoods and landmarks around Suffolk. Click on the icons to learn the story behind each place's name.
 

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STREET NAMES
Pitchkettle Road
Bennetts Pasture Road

PLACE NAMES
Hargrove's Tavern
Wonderland Forest
Elephant's Fork Elementary School
Riddick's Folly

By Stephanie Lee
THE MARKERS BELOW show streets, neighborhoods and landmarks around North Carolina. Click on the icons to learn the story behind each place's name.
 

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STREET NAMES
Holiday Island Rd.
Sleepy Hollow Rd.

PLACE NAMES
Whalebone Junction
Bodie Island
Frog Crossing
Pasquotank County
Old Quawk's Creek
Moyock

By Stephanie Lee
THE MARKERS BELOW show streets, neighborhoods and landmarks around Portsmouth. Click on the icons to learn the story behind each place's name.
 

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STREET NAMES
Muckle Court
Columbia St.
High St.

PLACE NAMES
Norcum Park
Craney Island
Hodges Ferry
Edmarc Hospice for Children
Willett Drive

By Stephanie Lee
THE MARKERS BELOW show streets, neighborhoods and landmarks around Chesapeake. Click on the icons to learn the story behind each place's name.
 

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STREET NAMES
Poindexter St.
Battlefield Blvd.
Shea Drive
Bunch Walnuts Road
Peaceful Road
Woodford Drive
Margaret Booker Drive

PLACE NAMES
Bowers Hill
Pughsville
Portlock
Fentress landing field

By Stephanie Lee
THE MARKERS BELOW show streets, neighborhoods and landmarks around Virginia Beach. Click on the icons to learn the story behind each place's name.
 

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CITY NAME
Virginia Beach
STREET NAMES
Pleasure House Rd.
General Booth Blvd.

PLACE NAMES
Eureka Park
Fort Story
Nimmo Parkway
Seatack
Wesleyan Chase

By Stephanie Lee
THE MARKERS BELOW show streets, neighborhoods and landmarks around Norfolk. Click on the icons to learn the story behind each place's name.

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STREET NAMES
Taussig Blvd.
Lafayette Blvd.
Magazine Lane
Armistead Bridge Rd.
Granby St.
Easy St.
College Place
Lamberts Point Rd.
PLACE NAMES
Sewells Point
Little Creek
Wards Corner
Maury High School

By Stephanie Lee

Where you sleep till noon... Better get there soon... Move them ever-lovin' feet To Easy Street. - from the musical "Annie"   Irony isn't dead yet. Not in Norfolk, anyway. Not as long as we've got Easy Street.

By Austin Wright NORFOLK Granby Street owes its name to an 18th-century man who never stepped foot in America and likely supported British legislation that oppressed the American colonists.

The name has a quaintness to it, a sense of something rural and austere and long since retired. Pitchkettle Road is no dirt farm lane, though. Motorists zipping around the north side of downtown can take it on the U.S. 58 bypass. In 2006, thousands did to get to the site for that year's Homearama.