Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . men with pitchforks followingthe plow and shaking the loosened vines from theearth and piling them in windrows. After lying inthe sunshine they are stacked in small shocks andcapped with hay. In two or three weeks the peanutsare picked by nomadic gangs of negroes. The Virginia crop amounts to about 4,000,000bushels annually, estimated at $2,226,000 value. St. Lukes Church.—About five miles from Smith-field is the Old Brick Church built in 1632, the oldestbuilding of English construction i
Laird & Lee's guide to historic Virginia and the Jamestown centennial ..Full statistics and itinerary .. . men with pitchforks followingthe plow and shaking the loosened vines from theearth and piling them in windrows. After lying inthe sunshine they are stacked in small shocks andcapped with hay. In two or three weeks the peanutsare picked by nomadic gangs of negroes. The Virginia crop amounts to about 4,000,000bushels annually, estimated at $2,226,000 value. St. Lukes Church.—About five miles from Smith-field is the Old Brick Church built in 1632, the oldestbuilding of English construction in America. The old tower church at Jamestown is of later dateand while Bruton at Williamsburg (1683) as an organ-ization is the oldest in America, its present edifice isantedated by St. Lukes, near Smithfield. This edificewas built under the supervision of Joseph Bridges, — 89 — — 90 — father of Gen. Jos. Bridges, Councellor of church was partially destroyed by a storm in1884, and its restoration was undertaken by the Barr. A most beautiful stained glass window commemor-. ST. LUKES CHURCH, SMITHFIELD ates the landing at Jamestown and the subsequent de-velopment of the Old Dominion. It is divided intotwelve sections with windows in honor of Washing-ton, Robert E. Lee, James Madison, Sir WalterRaleigh, John Smith, John Rolfe and other wellknown Colonists. — 91 — In 1891, during excavations for the burial of Bridges, the feet and legs of a lady werefound in front of the pulpit. They are believed to bethose of Miss Norsworthy, who was buried in theaisle in 1666, over two hundred years ago.
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