Evening star., 1915-11-14

is the property of Edward Z. Barney.
The Barney family lives in a modern
house on the island. Mr.. Barney bought
the island from Capt, Brown. Capt
Brown, a farmer, was the owner of the
island. and, of course, also the site OF
jamestown, before and during the civil
war, and he lived in the ancient Jaque-
lin-Ambler mansion. Soon after the
Barneys took possession of the island
they gave to the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities
twenty-three acres OF land covering
what exploration and research had dem
onstrated to be the site of jamestown.
This land surrounds the ancient tower.
the centuries-old tombs that have been
unearthed, and the foundations of the
several buildings that have been un-
covered. On this land various memorials
have been erected by patriotic societies,
and the erection of other memorials Is
proposed. One soon to be erected is a
statue of Pocahontas, which VIII stand
on the ground she knew SO well, and
close by the spot where she was bap-
tiZed and married.
OF course, there are several ways OF
reaching jamestown Island. but the
Rambler followed the old road from
Williamsburg. AS you come to the
head of lliansburg's main street
the Duke of Gloucester street-you fol-
low a we'll beaten road that turns go
the left and you leave on the right the
brick buildings of the venerable COL
lege of William and Mary set in their
grove of stately trees. You are not
out of Williamsburg after turning at
the end of the Duke of Gloucester
street, for on the left side of your
road are many cottages, some with
flower gardens at their front and sides
and fenced from the road by palings.
A little farther along you walk down
q steep h!il and your road leads across
a picturesque lake framed in wooded
hillsides and formed by the damning or
Il creek-College creek-to furnish
power to a mill which is still st"nd-
ing. but whose great wheel was mo-
tionless when the Rambler walked that
way. You climb out of the steep val
ley of the creek or the basin of tho
lake by winding road and come out
on high level land. where so much OF
it is cleared that you get broad views
of the country.
On these lands is Virginia agri-
cultural experiment station.
The way to jamestown from the
Virginia experiment farm 'endS down
another hill and over another creek
which ever n,anv wears ago was
converted into mill pond F-o-, this
mill pond the road carries YOU though
woods. and afte- about two miles of
this the road leads YOU out 'n+o q vast
tract of cleared country. level as any
land and enter unon this wide and
level land the wind cloud and sun
tell you that the river is not far awav
You NAV catch s'eht of ton white
shaft against the skyline nd know
that il is the monument erected NV the
United States government on James,
town Island in 1907
Crossing this stretch of fair farming
country your road turns to the light
and you catch Rlin,pses of the broad
James. You turn down ve'low hill
through woods of ~ak and nine, and at
the base Of this mill you come tn the
wide slough of wild presses and cat
tails. You are in Powhatan sr-amp
The road which is built up like
causeway through this marsh leads to
rickety bridge over Back river and
crossing this you are on Jamestown Is
land. at a place called by the earlv
colonists FriePett Landing because in
the early days an English frisate land
ed there. 1t Is somewhat elevated land
for the island. and is covered with
trees. Crossing this the road leads
down and over slash. which is a part
of the Back river swamp Then the
road climbs a low ridge and you are
then in plain view of the buildings
and some of the memorials on the site
of jamestown. A hedge of privet sep
arates the open fields yod have crossed
from the site reservation. and you come
up against heavy iron gates with
gravel and cement gateposts fanked
by short sections of wall
Inside the grounds you walk where
jamestown stood. and you look on
many relics of the long-gone James
town period But tour of the site
and an examine tion of the relics and
memorials must be the subject of an
other Ramble.