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unusual facts about Collis P. Huntington State Park


Collis P. Huntington State Park

The estate, including Luttgen's mansion Villa Linta, was acquired upon Luttgen's death in 1922 by Joseph E. Sterrett, a principal with the accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse.


Arabella Huntington

Arabella Yarrington "Belle" Huntington (c.1850-1924) was the second wife of American railway tycoon and industrialist Collis P. Huntington, and then the second wife of Henry E. Huntington.

Mariners' Museum

The museum was founded in 1930 by Archer Milton Huntington, son of Collis P. Huntington, a railroad builder who brought the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway to Warwick County, Virginia, and who founded the City of Newport News, its coal export facilities, and Newport News Shipbuilding in the late 19th century.

Nob Hill, San Francisco

The hotels were named for three of The Big Four, four entrepreneurs of the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad: Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins & Collis P. Huntington.

Walter A. Post

He was sent to Newport News by his brother-in-law, railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington, to build a cargo terminal at the end of the newly built eastern terminus of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway on the Virginia Peninsula.


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