Ensign MacNaughton was also of interest to me, too, because of the connection to this area. And has me wondering how widely the term "Hampton Roads" was applied a century ago. Or whether, in this case, it is referring to the body of water.

In the current day, Hampton Roads tends to be a regional appellation for all of the Seven Cities in this area (Chesapeake, Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach) with a few areas surrounding them, though I think that usage is only a few decades old, and there is a push by some to move from using that to using Coastal Virginia, because nobody knows where Hampton Roads is.