the Sportsman to Newport News station. Recent decades Phoebus has an area listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. The Phoebus National Historic District is a section of Phoebus which encompasses the historic business area on Mellen and Mallory Streets and a significant number of homes. Notable people Ralph Wolfe Cowan (1931-2018), artist John William "Uncle Jack" Dey (1912–1978), noted and celebrated folk painter Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924-2019), the original Flight Director for NASA, was born and raised in Phoebus. Mary S. Peake (1823–1862), first teacher of freedmen and their children in Phoebus (now Hampton) William T. Randall, (1915–2013), Negro league baseball player George R. E. Shell, (1908–1996), Ninth superintendent of Virginia Military Institute, Brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps See also Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia List of former United States counties'' References External links Phoebus community website Phoebus official website Virginia Places educational website Hampton Fire Dept history Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Former municipalities in Virginia Phoebus Phoebus Neighborhoods in Hampton, Virginia Populated places established in 1609 National Register of Historic Places in Hampton, Virginia 1609 establishments in Virginia