The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . Butler, as a strategic point commanding the waterwayroute to Richmond and other towns and positions on theJames River. Here Butler erected a battery and mounteda large gun, with which he finally succeeded in hurling aprojectile six miles across the mouth of the James, towarda Confederate entrenchment. Extending from the mouth of the James was a long sandbar covered with shallow water, and running several hun-dred yards out into Hampton Roads. It was upon thispoint that the Confederate Iron Clad Merrimac(Virginia) ran the U. S. Frigate
The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . Butler, as a strategic point commanding the waterwayroute to Richmond and other towns and positions on theJames River. Here Butler erected a battery and mounteda large gun, with which he finally succeeded in hurling aprojectile six miles across the mouth of the James, towarda Confederate entrenchment. Extending from the mouth of the James was a long sandbar covered with shallow water, and running several hun-dred yards out into Hampton Roads. It was upon thispoint that the Confederate Iron Clad Merrimac(Virginia) ran the U. S. Frigate Minnesota ashore,where soon after she took fire from the bombard-ment and her magazines igniting she was blown up, hurlingupward the debris and wreck of this magnificent Colton, a Frenchman, the Confedlerate General commanding in this vicinity, waded out upon the sandbarup to his neck in water to witness the strange, but novelengagement. When the explosion occurred, throwing shipand crew skyward, the Frenchman explained N 1-:Wr()KT N EWS DRYD()(K. In Newport News is located one of the best and larg-est shipbuilding and dry docking plants in the world, whichemploys about 7,000 men. Here were built some of thebest ships of the United States Navy, the Louisiana, Ken-tucky, Virginia, Carolina, Minnesota, Tennessse and Kear-sarge, and also the large merchantman Korea. The plant is situated on the water front and covers one 49 hundred and twenty acres of land. It has expended asmuch as three and one half million dollars in wages for oneyear. The largest drydock in the world is here and thebusiness has so incereased that a third dry dock is in courseof construction. Crowds of people gather in the city when the great warships are launched with pomp and ceremony, and magnatesfrom ali over the country assemble to see the christening bysome fair hand. A trip through the shipyard of the largestship building plant in America will repay the visitor, foryou
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