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Cerinda W. Evans
A Virginia librarian and local historian, she turned deep archival research into vivid books about ships, shipbuilding, and the people who shaped Newport News. Her work is especially remembered for preserving pieces of maritime and regional history that might otherwise have slipped from view.
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Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia
by Cerinda W. Evans
About the author
Born in Accomack County, Virginia, on February 21, 1876, Cerinda Weatherly Evans spent much of her working life in education and libraries. She taught in Accomack County before moving to Newport News, where she later became the first librarian of the Newport News Free Library and eventually served as its director.
After retiring from library work, she devoted herself to historical research and writing. Evans wrote on Virginia's maritime past in Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia and also published book-length studies connected to the Huntington family and the Mariners' Museum in Newport News.
She died on July 14, 1973. Evans is remembered as a careful, locally rooted historian whose writing helped document both colonial shipping and the civic history of coastal Virginia.