Identifier: virginiaolddomin00hutc (find matches)
Title: Virginia, the Old Dominion, as seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Hutchins, Frank W Hutchins, Cortelle
Subjects: Historic buildings Houseboats
Publisher: Boston, The Page Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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re-taker, to stand at the most westerly angleof the fort, and his son on the sea-wall atthe lower end of the fort, and Henry on thesea-wall a hundred yards farther up stream;then, straight lines connecting these three menenclosed all that is left of that first little forti-fied settlement where Anglo-Saxon Americabegan. While the three men stood at thethree corners, we took a photograph of thehistoric bit of land; and long after they hadgone we lingered reflectively about it. Here, in that spring of 1607, within thestrong palisade, the settlers built their firstcabins. Here, Captain Newport left them,and sailed back to England. Here, too, hefound them again — a pitiful few of them —when he returned the next winter with rein-forcements for the colony. By another win-ter, the palisaded village had extended some-what, mostly eastward. It then included, sofar as we could make out, all the land nowwithin the Confederate fort and probably alsothe site of the present ruined church and 70
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SEEING WHERE THINGS IL\PPENED gi-aveyard. Upon this little four-acre settle-ment hung the destiny of a hemisphere forthe next few years. We trudged about within the old townlimits and tried to picture the chief events ofthose years; but we could not remember whatthey were; so we sat do^vn on the grassy fort,regardless of ticks and redbugs, to read upsome more. For a while there was no soundbut the tmtter of the birds and the murmurof the river. Then the Commodore foundsomething in his book, and he began verysolemnly to tell of hovv^ on that very spot thecolonists endured the hoiTors of the Stan-ing Time. At this there was such a genuineexclamation of pleasure from Nautica thatthe Commodore loiew he was too late; shehad not even heard. She had found some-thing in her book too, and was already an-nouncing that it was right there that JohnRolfe and Pocahontas were married. But the Commodore insisted that liis storycame first, as Nauticas romantic event wasnot until 1614, while his famine

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