The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . rationto render honor to whom honor is due, it were well tolift the misty veil of the past and find the one whom Cap-tain John Smith delighted to honor. Desiring that En-gland should honor the Indian Princess by a recognitionof her services he wrote a letter to the Queen declaringthat Pocahontas next under God was still the instrumentto preserve this colony from death, famine and utter con-fusion, which, if in those times has once becomed dissolved,Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival tothis day, and the Queen and th
The Wise guide to historic places in Virginia, 1607-1907 . rationto render honor to whom honor is due, it were well tolift the misty veil of the past and find the one whom Cap-tain John Smith delighted to honor. Desiring that En-gland should honor the Indian Princess by a recognitionof her services he wrote a letter to the Queen declaringthat Pocahontas next under God was still the instrumentto preserve this colony from death, famine and utter con-fusion, which, if in those times has once becomed dissolved,Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival tothis day, and the Queen and the Royal Court vied witheach other in honoring this Woman who so heroicallyplayed her part in the great drama of life three centuriesago when Wilderness was King where the JamestownTer-Centennial Exposition is held today. Smithf ield The site of the lodge of the War- ascoyack Tribe of Indians whenthe colonists arrived in 1607. Old St. Lukes Church,built in 1632 is in a fine state of preservation. It is an al-most exact counterpart of the Jamestown parnOUS Many famous colonial homes lift CZolonial aloft their columns on the banks of Momes the James River. Brandon the beautiful Colonial Home of the fa-mous Harrison family, which was owned in 1617 by Cap-tain John Martin the only man who protested againstthe abandonment of Jamestown in 1610. Fine portraitsby old masters still adorn the walls, among them the por-trait of the Southern Belle, Evelyn Byrd. This home wasfamed during colonial days as having the finest library inAmerica, owned by the most accomplished man in thecolony. Colonel Byrd, the founder of Richmond and Pe-tersburg. Westover was built in 1787. It was occupied byBenedict Arnold, the traitor, on his road to Pope had quarters here during the Civil oldest tombstone in Virginia is here, bearing date of1687. Bacons Castle, on lower Chippoke Creek, erectedin 1660, one of the oldest brick houses in Virginia. It wasfortified during Bacons R
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