The expedition that would lead to the first permanent English settlement in the west at Jamestown made it’s first landfall at the northeast corner of what is now Virginia Beach, an event memorialized by the naming of the part woody and part marshy First Landing State Park
Thirty-five million years after the comet shattered the earth, there at the mouth of the bay and on the southernmost point of the crater’s outer rim is where Hampton Roads resides.
The mouth of the Chesapeake Bay lies at the midway point along the east coast of the US, where the waterway bisects the land then turns north to span two hundred miles—at places thirty miles wide and seven fathoms deep…
VB author Lewis Woodson Presents
The Virginia Beach Journal
Summer 2020
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