Tidewater Spirit: Cultural Landmarks, Monuments & History of Eastern Virginia

Tidewater lies east of the fall line of the Virginia rivers that flow into the Chesapeake-a definition that dates back to colonial times. Much of what we know of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Tidewater comes from the writings of Captain John Smith, William Byrd II and Thomas Jefferson. The Virginia of Smith, Byrd and Jefferson remains, in part, our Virginia. Geography and place names are largely the same. Their accounts of what they saw, where they traveled, what's in bloom and what's...