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Identifier: illustratedstand00norf (find matches)
Title: Illustrated standard guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth and historical events of Virginia 1607 to 1907
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907)
Publisher: Norfolk, Va., Standard lithographing and publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rounds. There are numerous other smaller first-class hotels and restaurants near by. A large double-deckedpavilion and theater, besides many other attractions and placesof amusement, line the board walk. From along the shores ofPine Beach excellent views of Old Point, Hampton Roads, andChesapeake Bay may be had. River Steamer Trips There are numerous short trips of great historical interest,which may be taken around Hampton Roads and its tributaries,carrying the visitor to some of the most famous places in Vir-ginia. A very pleasant and attractive all-day trip is thatoffered by the Virginia Navigation Companys steamer Poca-hontas, plying the James River between Norfolk and Richmond,leaving Norfolk at 7.00 oclock A. M., Tuesday, Thurday, andSaturday, from the O. D. S. S. Companys pier, foot of NebraskaStreet, and from the S. A. L. Railway wharf, foot of High Street,Portsmouth, at 7.15 oclock A. M., touching at Old Point,Newport News, and all the principal landings along the JamesRiver.
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Confederate Monument—Portsmouth, Va. 78 RIVER STEAMER TRIPS 79 Some of the most important historical points passed are:Jamestown Island, where Christopher Newport and his littleband of one hundred and eight English colonists, headed byCaptain John Smith, landed and permanently established thefirst settlement of English-speaking people in America, May 13,1607*. The crumbling church tower, overgrown with clingingvines and ivv, may be seen from the deck of the steamer.Chickahominy River, which empties into the James on the northside, just above Jamestown Island,, is the stream up whichCaptain John Smith and a small party of men ascended duringthe early summer of 1607, and fought a battle with the Indians,during which John Smith was captured and carried beforePowhatan, tried and condemned to die, but was heroicallyrescued by Pocahontas. Brandon, Weyanoke, Westover, and Flower De Hundred arealso points of interest to the visitor, they being old Colonialsettlements established in the earl

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  • bookpublisher:Norfolk__Va___Standard_lithographing_and_publishing_co
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  • bookleafnumber:83
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