Pasture Point traces it's roots back more than a 150 years.  The earliest written records we have been able to find that refer to "Pasture Point" date from 1849.  Before it became a neighborhood, Pasture Point was known as Pasture Tract, a grassy area that included an orchard.  The area was part of the Miles Cary plantation, who immigrated from England in 1645 and built one of the wealthiest plantations in 17th century Virginia.

The earliest surviving homes were built in Pasture Point by Charles Taylor Holtzclaw and his brother William around 1890.  The Holtzclaws developed Pasture Point area as a neighborhood for some of the city's most prominent professionals, managers, and shopkeepers.  By the turn of the 20th century Pasture Point was considered "the" place to live in Hampton.

The neighborhood is typical of the late 19th and early 20th century street car neighborhoods that are laid out in grid patterns along streetcar lines.  The Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) train station was located along the northern boundary of Pasture Point, making the neighborhood a busy link for commerce to downtown Hampton.  As the seafood industry developed in Hampton, the railroad was used to transport goods, especially seafood, in and out of Hampton.

Today, Pasture Point has approximately 450 residents living in approximately 200 homes representing a mix of 19th and 20th century single and multi-family structures.  Approximately half of the homes in Pasture Point were built between 1870 and 1935.  These houses are architecturally distinctive reflecting the latest thinking in home construction...more than a 100 years ago.

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