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Title: The tidewater cities of Hampton Roads, Virginia, your hosts for 1907, 1607-1907, the Jamestown exposition
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907)
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Publisher: (St. Louis, Mo.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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s who wonthe victory of l^Sl, and there is anothermonument to mark the exact spot of thesurrender. There stands the first CustomHouse ever ope,ned in the United States;the Moore house on Temple Farm, where arethe ruins of the old church built in 1660;there is the cave in which Cornwallis tookrefuge during the bombardment of the place,and the old Nelson House upon whichThomas Nelson who was in Washingtonsarmy, knowing that British officers werehoused in his residence, begged the Conti-nentals to fire, and offered a reward foreach shot that hit the mark. On the Pam-unky River, not far from Yorktown, therestands the White House, which is a repro-duction of the one in which Washington wasmarried in 1759, and occupies the samesite. On the ridge of Ware Creek not farfrom the White House is an old stone housewhich was mentioned in Smiths History ofVirginia, and was built by the Jamestownsettlers as a place of retreat in case of anIndian uprising. Nearby is the well-knownPowhatans chimney. 11
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Ocean View. Ocean View is located on the ChesapeakeBay within range of the monster guns ofFortress Monroe and Fort Wool, popularlyknown as the Atlantic City of the South,hardly two miles from the Exposition grounds,the point at which the Federal soldierslanded during the Civil War, and one of thefinest bathing and fishing resorts at any in-terior salt water resort in the country. Ashort distance from Ocean View, on a neckof land known as Willoughby Spit, overlook-ing the Exposition grounds, is the home cfthe Hampton Roads Yacht Club, which willbe a central point of interest during theyachting races that will be held in the sum-mer of 1907. Cape Henry. Cape Henry, where the English first disem-barked in 1607, a stone tablet now has sup-planted the old wooden cross raised by thefirst settlers to mark the spot where theadventurers landed on American soil. It iseasily reached by trolley or rail—has twogreat lighthouses, one dating from 1690,the other completed in the latter part of then

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