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Title: Virginia, the Old Dominion, as seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Hutchins, Frank W Hutchins, Cortelle
Subjects: Historic buildings Houseboats
Publisher: Boston, The Page Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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cora-tions and to grace the birth of a new year. And yet, these were among the most glori-ous days for houseboating: tonic days witha hint of winter in the chill, crisp air, anddreamy days with a lingering of summer inthe suns warm glow. The enervating heatwas over, and the worrisome insects weregone. In peace we could sail in the marshstream or climb the banks for ferns and holly.Gadabout moved with masses of pale reeds,spicy boughs of cedar, bay branches, andglowing holly nodding on her bow. The airwas no longer filled with the song of birds;but it was alive and cheerily a-twitter withtheir fat flittings from seeds to berries, frommarsh to woodland. Heartily we declaredthat it was better to go an-Autumning thana-Maying. After a while there were signs of peopleabout. Little boats were nosing into the bankhere and there, and occasionally a white farm-house would peep over the blufl above ourwater-trail. It was along toward dinner time when,according to our count, the houseboat had 186
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GADABOUT GOES TO CHURCH rounded as many bends as the chart seemedto require, and ought to be near WestoverChurch. So, upon catching sight through thetrees of a brick building up on the bluff, weconcluded that Gadabout had reached herjourneys end, and an anchor was dropped. Toward evening Nautica and the Commo-dore went ashore. At the top of the hill wasa little graveyard, and standing in it was theold church that we had come to see. It wasa small building and plain, but of historicinterest. As originally built, about the middleof the seventeenth century, it stood not herebut down on the shore of the James at West-over. One of the earliest churches in thecountry, and then standing on one of thegreatest estates in Virginia, it was a typicalcentre of colonial life; and gathered aboutit, in the little graveyard by the river, werethe tombs of noted colonial dead. About the middle of the eighteenth centurythe church was moved to its present site. En-closed within a brick wall and with the t

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