Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-11
HISTORIC VIRGINIA ATTRACTS
MOTORISTS FROM WASHINGTON
New Highways Radiating From Rich
mond Bring Norfolk Close to
National Capital.

lected for scores of years and sub.
ieCted to being almost A part of the
Confederate Notifications along the
lanes during the Civil War, a few
wears ago was reconstructed by the
Virginia society. The new work is
built outside the crumbling old founda
tons. thereby putting them under
cover In the course OF the recon.
struction work a dozen or more an
Gent tombstones were uncovered,
among them that of Gov. Winthrop.
Reinc of the native local stone, they
had disintegrated to such an extent
that not a single date could be de-
ciphereG.
Rambling along the water front
where a ferry plies between James
town and Scotland, one views the
statues of Capt. John Smith, founder
of the colony, and Pocahontas, the
Indian maid so famous in early
American history. We arrived there
as the sun was dropping toward the
horizon across the wide expanse Of
the river. and the scene was 1mpos-
ing. Behind the statues lie the ram
parts, now grassy knobs. thrown up
by the Confederates to protect the
river during the war. To the rear
stands the caretaker's cottage, sur
rounded with lockwood, in keeping
with the scene.
TOmbstOnes Dated 1911.
We return to Williamsburg, and lie.
fore we continue our journey toward
Newport News. stop at the old Bruton
Church. built in 1888. to view tomb
stones dated 1911 craven in old Eng
lish script. The early Winter day is
fast drawing to close, and nearly
so miles lie before us. The road is
nerfect. there are no important towns
to slow our progress, and Newport
News World War embarkat1on point
for thousands of soldiers, is reached
in two hours. Frequent arrows point
our way to the Norfolk Ferry, and
the car is aboard scant three min
utes before the boat starts its 15-mile
Journey across the mouth Of the
James. From the upper deck one gets
an excellent view of Hampton Roads
with it's ships passing down the
Chesapeake out to sea through the
capes. The ferry slips into its berth
near the naval base just after dark,
and there is rush down the boule-
ward for Norfolk proper. some i've
miles away Here we encountered
the first difficulty. Norfolks streets
are miserably marked. Sometimes no
Identification can be found for several
blocks, but in due time CRANKY street
was reached and hotel accommoda-
tions for the night secured.
BY an early start the next morning
Whe may take an 18-mile side trip out
to Virginia Beach over a highway
wide enough for four cars. While
the season is closed, accommodations
can be obtained there during the Win
ter months. Returning from the beach
we skirted the city and set out for
.rNv. L., IONiVa - toll
| for Old Point Comfort. The boat Is
small and runs hourly. Consequently
when the captain from the pilot house
| spied US racing along five minutes
after the scheduled time for departure
he accommodatingly held the boat.
Good View Out to Sea.
Crossing the roads here one gets
| good view out to sea past the capes
| and up the Chesapeake, the route OF
| the steamers to Washington and
| Baltimore. Fort Wool, the island por-
| ton of the Notifications of Fortress
| Monroe, is passed just before we
| land. Once more on the Virginia
| mainland, as it were, we drive over
| to Fortress Monroe for an interesting
| glance through one of the most i'm
| portant Coast Artillery posts in the
| country, cross the moat into the fort
| within, thence out again ana press OH
| for Hampton, which shares honors
| with jamestown as one of the earliest
| English settlements. Back to New
| port News we proceed for lunch and
a tour through the great shipyards
! there.
Departing again for Washington,
| the road branches off 20 miles out,
one route leading back to Williams
burg and Richmond, the other the
| Tidewater trail to Fredericksburg
! through Yorktown, where Cornwallls
| surrendered to Washington, thus end
! ing the Revolutionary War. The
| latter is the logical return route, but
some of the road is as yet gravel and
| clay and might we'll be avoided dur
| ing the bad weather. Either course
| brings one back to Washington by
nightfall, with lunch stops at either
| Richmond or Fredericksburg.