What to see in America . onfederacy with Chesapeake Bayopening northward,has long been a favor-ite seaside resort. Itsname was conferredby Capt. John Smithin gratitude for theshelter it afforded hisvessel from the opensea. Here is FortressMonroe, the most elaborate fortification in the United States. The stoneramparts are about two miles in circumference and inclosean eighty-acre area which resembles a beautiful park. Out-side of the rampart is a broad moat. Jefferson Davis wasconfined in the fortress for a year and a half after the CivilWar, and then was released without a trial. Four milesdi
What to see in America . onfederacy with Chesapeake Bayopening northward,has long been a favor-ite seaside resort. Itsname was conferredby Capt. John Smithin gratitude for theshelter it afforded hisvessel from the opensea. Here is FortressMonroe, the most elaborate fortification in the United States. The stoneramparts are about two miles in circumference and inclosean eighty-acre area which resembles a beautiful park. Out-side of the rampart is a broad moat. Jefferson Davis wasconfined in the fortress for a year and a half after the CivilWar, and then was released without a trial. Four milesdistant is located the well-known Hampton Normal andAgricultural Institute for Negroes and Indians, and not farbeyond that is Newport News through which passes anenormous tonnage for or from the seagoing ships. On theother side of the James River, about a dozen miles to the west, is one of theoldest churchesin Virginia, atSmithfield. Itwas erected in1632, but for halfa century after1836 the buildingwas abandoned,and little. Old Homes in Fi{Kdluick^buk( sur-vived except thebrick walls. Then 150 What to See in America it was restored, and in doing so about 2000 bricks thathad been in the old church at Jamestown were used. Sometwenty miles south of Smithfield is Suffolk, the worldsgreatest peanut market. This preeminence has beenachieved mainly because of its location and the fact that sixrailroads entering Suffolk traverse the largest and most pro-ductive section of the great peanut belt, which embracesmore than thirty counties in Virginia and North Great Dismal Swamp can be easily visited from is about forty miles long and nearly as wide, is inter-sected by canals, and yields a large quantity of cedar, cy-press, and other timber. A man can be hired at Suffolk topaddle the tourist in a canoe ten miles into the Swamp asfar as Lake Drummond, and back by the Jericho Run , the largest place in the state, is at the head ofnavigation on the James Riv
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