Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-01

r. were at NorIolK yesterday
~ and today we go to Will
" " liamsburg and up the north
ern bank of the historic
James River. Between New
port News and Williamsburg is Carriers
Grove, which is open this year for the
first time since its restoration by Mr.
and Mrs. Archibald McCrea, which was
started in 1927. This house was built
by Carter Burwell in 1851. The wood
work Is remarkable and unsurpassed by
any in America in design or workman
ship. Pine is used for most of the
paneling and the carved balustrade. On
the stair rail are marks made by Tarle-
tons mems Sabers. The house is zoo
feet long, and while the work has been
started on the garden and the terraces
toward the river rebuilt it will be a
couple of years before the gardens are
completed.
The next place is Williamsburg
which was originally known as Middle
Plantation. When the Colonial Gov
eminent was moved from jamestown to
Williamsburg in 1700 the name was
changed in honor of william of Orange.
Here we find William and Mary Col
1ege, founded in 1893, the oldest insti-
tuition of learning in America. 1t was
from William and Mary College that
George Washington received his COM
went to college here, John Marshall
studied law here under the first pro-
feSsor of law in America, George Wythe,
and many other famous men of that
time were educated here, among them
being James Monroe, John Tyler, John
Blair Bushrod Washington and Peyton
and Edmund Randolph. The first Cap
itol Building in America was built here
In 1705 and Is now being restored with
many other historical buildings, through
the generosity of John D. Rockefeller, jr.
BrutOn Parish Church.
Bruton Parish Church is also here.
1t was built in 1876 and has been in
continuous use ever since. It is here
that the baptismal font from which
Pocahontas was baptized at jamestown,
and which was lost for many years, may
be seen. The bell in this church an
nounced the repeal of the stamp act
and proclaimed the independence of the
United Colonies, May Is, 1776, just six
weeks before the famous bell in Phila-
delphta was rung for the same purpose.
This bell still rings every Sunday morn
ing.
A few miles beyond Williamsburg on
the Richmond road we come to a road
marked Jamestown" and turning to
the left we drive directly to the site of
the settlement of the first permanent
English colony in America. The Colo
NAL Church has been restored and was
built upon the foundations of the old
church. In this church Pocahontas
was baptized and later married to John
Rolfe, in 1913. On the walls of the
church is tablet to an Indian boy who
saved the jamestown colony from mas
sacre in 1922. There are also tablets to
Pocahontas, Capt. John Smith and
others. 1t was here, on July 81, 1919,
that the first legislative body ever held
in America met, known as the House of
Burgesses. The old bricked-in well is
worthy of attention, as it was this well
over which the Indians and early set
tiers had many fights. One should not
fail to go to see the graveyard when
visiting Jamestown.
Coming back to the main road from
Jamestown, when you get to Providence
Forge take the road to the left, which
leads to the Charles City read, or Road
No Al. Here you will find markers that
bring you to Westover, one of the most
imposing estates in Virginia. William
Byrd and his wife Mary came to this
country in 1874 and purchased the
plantation at Westover in 1888 from
Theodorick Bland. 1t was here in 1875,