Identifier: cradleofrepublic04tyle (find matches)
Title: The cradle of the republic : Jamestown and James River
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935
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Publisher: Richmond, Va. : Hermitage Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Henry, but the American Revolution caused another de-lay. In 1789, Virginia ceded two acres at Cape Henry to theUnited States for a lighthouse, and not long after the struc-ture, so many years in contemplation, was actually erected. Chesapeake Bay. After passing the capes the visitor beholdsthe wide expanse of the bay of Chesapeake, which is anIndian name. The bay is 186 miles long, having an averagewidth of twenty miles, and is a grand basin running parallelto the coast, which receives the waters of the James, York,Happahannock, Potomac, Patuxent, Patapsco, Gunpowder,Susquehannah, Nanticoke, Choptank and several other riversof Virginia and Maryland. Perhaps no bay in the world hassuch diversified scenery. The numerous rivers divide what iscalled Tide-water Virginia and Tide-water Maryland into longand narrow peninsulas, which are themselves furrowed bydeep creeks, making numerous necks or minor peninsulas ofland. Up these rivers and creeks the tide ebbs and flows formany miles. (201)
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202 The Cradle of the Republic. Lynnhaven Bay. It appears on Smiths map as AlortonsBay, because here Matthew Morton and Captain GabrielArcher were wounded by the Indians. Present name derivedfrom the town of Lynn in England. It is at present famousfor its oysters, said to be the finest in the world. Hampton Roads. At Willoughby Point Chesapeake Bayconnects with another bay called Hampton roads, into whichdischarge the waters of Elizabeth, Nansemond, James andv Hampton rivers. This bay, which is one of the finest harborsin the world, receives its name from Henry Wriothesley, Earlof Southampton, treasurer of the London Company from1620 to 1625, Hampton being a contraction for Southampton.Few men have a nobler memorial. IVilloiigJiby Point. Named from Thomas Willoughby, amember of the Council from 1-644 to 1650, who belonged tothe family of Lord Willoughby, governor of Barbadoes.Masons Creek, which empties into Willoughby Bay, ob-_\ tains its name from Captain Francis Mason,, one of the

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