. Virginia in black and white . Point Com-fort, but how many of us know that its name was given in grateful remem-brance for the refuge it afforded these storm-tossed adventurers ? The col-onists landed at what is now Hampton, but resumed their ships and sailedup the magnificent Powhatan River— now the James — and on May 13, 1607,landed on a low peninsula, where they built Jamestown. The site is nowan island that has almost disappeared ; but here may still be seen the ivy-clad tower of the church they built, and the graveyard still shows somecracked slabs and tombstones on which some of the na
. Virginia in black and white . Point Com-fort, but how many of us know that its name was given in grateful remem-brance for the refuge it afforded these storm-tossed adventurers ? The col-onists landed at what is now Hampton, but resumed their ships and sailedup the magnificent Powhatan River— now the James — and on May 13, 1607,landed on a low peninsula, where they built Jamestown. The site is nowan island that has almost disappeared ; but here may still be seen the ivy-clad tower of the church they built, and the graveyard still shows somecracked slabs and tombstones on which some of the names may yet bedeciphered, among them that of the wife of Commissary Blair, the founderof William and Mary College at Williamsburg. It is a noteworthy fact thatone of the first cares was the providing of a place for religious worship. Anold tent was the first church ; but when Lord Delaware came out in 1610 hefound at Jamestown a substantial church, the ruins of which are among themost interesting relics of that early = - \.<r. THE OLD CHURCH ATJAMESTOWN. Then there followed theconflicts of force and strategybetween Smith and thatgreat savage Powhatan,who was a mighty emperorof a vast nation. The re-gion from Old Point Comfortto Richmond, along theYork, the James and theChickahominy rivers is full\,.. of interesting relics .ft-;^.4sra?gwBv of this time.
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