New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907 . Exposition nothing had been doneabout it. It was estimated that the citys portion would cost $, Norfolk had not been allowed to vote money for the Exposition,as was customary at other national fairs, it looked with favor on theproposition, because it would be an asset after the Exposition closed,and would open up desirable territory for a new residential proved correct before the lapse of a year, and hundreds ofcottages, both modest and pretentious, sprang up everywhere withinvicinity
New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907 . Exposition nothing had been doneabout it. It was estimated that the citys portion would cost $, Norfolk had not been allowed to vote money for the Exposition,as was customary at other national fairs, it looked with favor on theproposition, because it would be an asset after the Exposition closed,and would open up desirable territory for a new residential proved correct before the lapse of a year, and hundreds ofcottages, both modest and pretentious, sprang up everywhere withinvicinity of the route traversed. The State Railroad Commission detailed convicts to work uponthe countys portion, and they also operated the quarry for the neces-sary stone to form the bed. No contract had been let up to August18, 1906, yet the road was practically completed on time, and wasnot alone utilitarian for carts, for troops and enjoyed by automo-bilists and riders; but by reason of the skilled work of the chief engineer,Mr. Pierce, sent by the Good Roads Department at Washington,. o s UJ — cO 2 d £ (Uu(D is Eo 0 CO 5 Jamestown Exposition 149 it offered an object lesson to every section of Virginia afflicted bypoor roads. Development Covering- the entire area of the site chosen there was a markedabsence of natural landscape effect which at other expositions, byhill and dale or lakes and streams was readily convertible into apanoramic vista of beauty. There was flatness everywhere onelooked, unless concealed by a thick growth of trees, with a straightline of beach, and Old Point Comfort discernible across the wateras a dark, jagged line stretching along the northerly horizon. What streams there were in the neighborhood were so in themain only when high tide swelled the hollows, were choked by grasses,because the rich soil in combination with tidal effect promoted thoseconditions. However, at the extreme westerly limits of the propertythere was an extensive pine grove with it
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