About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: Jamestown, Virginia, Hampton Roads, History of the Jamestown Settlement, Peninsula Extension, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, James River plantations, George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, Starving Time, James River and Kanawha Canal, Hollywood Cemetery, George Yeardley, Jamestown Ferry, Falling Creek Ironworks, Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, Thomas Dale, Battle of Drewry's Bluff, Natural Bridge, Historic Jamestowne, James River bateau, Kepone, List of crossings of the James River, Belle Isle, Brown's Island, Jackson River, Maidens, Virginia, Hatton Ferry, Cowpasture River, Mulberry Island, White Shoal Light, Port of Richmond, Tobacco Row, Nansemond River Light, Dutch Gap Canal Lights, Jordan Point Light, Point of Shoals Light, Deepwater Shoals Light, Dale's Code, Hoffler Creek, Bullpasture River, Chuckatuck Creek, James River Correctional Center, Pagan River. Excerpt: Hampton Roads is the name for both a body of water and the Norfolk-Virginia Beach metropolitan area which surrounds it in southeastern Virginia, United States. Hampton Roads is notable for its year-round ice-free harbor, for United States Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, NASA, Marines, and Army facilities, shipyards, coal piers, and hundreds of miles of waterfront property and beaches, all of which contribute to the diversity and stability of the region's economy. The water area known as Hampton Roads is one of the world's biggest natural harbors (more accurately a roadstead or "roads"), and incorporates the mouths of the Elizabeth River and James River with several smaller rivers and itself empties into the Chesapeake Bay near its mouth leading to the Atlantic Ocean. The skyline of Norfolk, the region's geographic centerThe land area (also known as "Tidewater") includes dozens of cities, counties and towns on the Virg...
