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

by Frank W. Hutchins; Cortelle Hutchins

• Madison, James
• Marshall, Chief-Justice John
• Marshall, John, son of Chief-Justice Marshall
• Marshall, Mary Willis, wife of Chief-Justice Marshall
• Martin, Captain John
• Meadowville
• Merchants' Hope Church
• Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir
• Mordaunt, Charles
• Monroe, James

• Newport News

• Oliver, Commander James H., U.S.N.
• Oliver, Mrs. James H., of the Carter family, and one of
  the present owners of Shirley
• Opachisco
• Opechancanough, Indian chief

• Parke, Colonel Daniel
• Peale, Charles Wilson
• his portrait of Washington at Shirley
• Peterborough, Lord
• Petersburg, March upon
• Piersey, Captain Abraham, ownership of Fleur de Hundred
• Pocahontas
• marriage to John Rolfe
• after marriage lived at Varina
• Pope, Alexander
• Powell's Creek
• Powhatan, Indian chief, not at wedding of Pocahontas
• "Pyping Point"

• Ramsay, Mrs. C. Sears, present owner of Westover
• Ramsay, Elizabeth
• Ramsay family at Westover
• Randolph, Mistress Anne, of Wilton
• pre-Revolutionary belle, married the second Benjamin Harrison of Brandon
• her portrait at Brandon
• Richmond, at the Falls of the James
• founded by William Byrd of Westover in 1733
• Rolfe, John
• marriage to Pocahontas
• after marriage lived at Varina
• Shirley, colonial seat of the Hills and of the Carters
• right way to go to
• great seventeenth-century American plantation
• early owners of
• the exterior of the mansion and the ancient messuage
• the oldest homestead on the river and one of the oldest in the country
• the present owners
• the colonial "great hall"
• interior of mansion
• ghosts
• colonial portraits
• kitchen and cook-room
• colonial furnishings copied in restoration of the Mt. Vernon kitchen
• colonial silverware
• romance of "Light Horse Harry" Lee and Anne Hill Carter
• Peale's portrait of Washington
• old-time Shirley

• Silverware, colonial, family silver at Brandon
• communion service of Martin's Brandon Church at Brandon
• at Shirley
• Smith, Captain John
• Stratford, the ancestral home of the Lees
• Stuart, Gilbert

• Thomas, colonial house of

• Varina, site of early home of John Rolfe and Pocahontas
• Virginia society, type of

• War of 1812, fort built in
• Washington, George
• portrait of, by Peale, at Shirley
• Water Supply of James Towne colonists
• Westover
• became property of the Byrds
• present mansion built
• its colonial importance, and its successive owners
• riverward front
• interior of mansion
• romantic centre of
• present owner and family
• landward front, courtyard, and noted entrance gates
• garden and sun-dial, and tomb of William Byrd
• mysterious subterranean chambers
• recent restoration of
• old survey of plantation
• graveyard
• Westover Church
• one of earliest churches in the country
• Weyanoke
• two plantations
• houses of
• an Indian name
• Upper
• Lower
• present day family at
• oldest building at
• postoffice at
• Williamsburg
• Whittaker, Reverend Alexander
• Willcox, John V., ownership of Fleur de Hundred
• Wilton, home of Mistress Anne Randolph
• Windmill Point
• first windmill in America
• Wowinchopunk

• Yeardley, Sir George, tomb of
• ownership of Weyanoke
• ownership of Fleur de Hundred
• built first windmill in America
• Yonge, Samuel H.