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Title: Illustrated standard guide to Norfolk and Portsmouth and historical events of Virginia 1607 to 1907
Year: 1907 (1900s)
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Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907)
Publisher: Norfolk, Va., Standard lithographing and publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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wn to the under-growth of a great swamp, which extends for miles back into thecountry. At this resort there is a modern hotel and pavilion,besides a number of other smaller hotels and restaurants. Herealso is located a U. S. Life Saving Station, and a wireless teleg-raphy station. Pine Beach is situated at Sewells Point, on Hampton Roads,at the mouth of the Elizabeth River, about nine miles fromNorfolk, and is reached by the Norfolk & Atlantic Companydivision cars of the Norfolk & Portsmouth Traction Company,leaving City Hall Avenue station, corner of Atlantic Street,every few minutes, or by the Water Belt Line and many otherriver steamers which make numerous daily trips to this place. The new Jamestown Boulevard also affords an excellentdriveway from Norfolk to this resort, and the JamestownExposition grounds. The point of land on which Pine Beachis situated is the site and viewpoint of some of the most historicalevents in the history of Virginia. It was here that Ralph Lane-
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Court Street (Baptist) Church—Court Street, Portsmouth7G RIVER STEAMER TRIPS 77 and a party of adventurers, who left Roanoke Island to explorethe county, found a tribe of Indians, during 1586, known as theChesapeakes. On April 12, 1905, an Indian burying ground wasdiscovered near the Pine Beach Hotel, and near by the Indianburial place was found an Indian spring and relics in the shapeof curious shells and pottery left there by the red man, who haslong ago disappeared from this part of the country. There may be also seen along the water front remains of themasked batteries and earth works which mark the spot whereengagements occurred between the Confederates and the Fed-erals during the Civil War, and here is the best viewpoint of thefamous battle which took place between the ironclads, Merrimacand Monitor, on March 8, 1862, in Hampton Roads, near themouth of the Elizabeth River. As a summer resort, Pine Beach is one of the most popularof Norfolks many watering places. The Pine Beac

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