History of Bellevue

Here we collect information about the history of Bellevue.

We have:

Elizabeth Kambourian's:

Plat of Bellevue ca. 1822

Title Search to her property on the south side of W. Laburnum Ave.

Picture of her mother in the Childrens' Circus on Claremont Ave. c.1930

Newspaper ad offering her house in Bellevue in 1925

Newspaper story about the 1925 plan to build a Golf Course in Bryan Park

Old & New photos of Chamberlayne Avenue houses

A brief history of Bellevue Park by Burton F. Kiltz

Institutional Memory of Bellevue - a growing collection of emails and photos

BellevueBrats.com is an interesting web site!

Links

The below referenced documents are full of information about our neighborhoods,
and their footnotes and references are good starting points for further research

Virginia Department of Historic Resources

The site of the following links

Ginter Park Historic District
1986 Final Nomination

National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
65 pages

Laburnum Park Historic District
2002 Final Nomination

National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
90 pages

Hermitage Road Historic District
2005 National Register Draft

National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
52 pages

Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital
Historic Places Nomination

National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
27 pages

If you are a history buff and have interesting stuff about Bellevue, please send it to Elizabeth.