Tidewater region

Captain William Clark, the Redhead.

Born August 1st, 1770, in Caroline County, Tidewater, Virginia.

Father, John Clark of old Virginia Cavalier stock.

Mother, Anne Rogers, descendant of John Rogers, the martyr of Smithfield, burned at the stake in 1555 in England for his religious beliefs.

Mm-hmm.

In the South and in, in the, what's it called? Tidewater region, like Virginia-

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... that was, they had no interest in equality.

Jamestown, a name of first rank among historic names, saw the birth of English America.

Here on an island in the James River in the heart of Tidewater, Virginia, the English carved a settlement out of the wilderness.

It grew from a rude palisaded fort into a busy community and then into a small town that enjoyed many of the comforts of daily living.

For thirteen years, until 1620, Virginia was the only English colony on the American mainland.

So, you know, we source our rye regionally.

Our, our farmer who produces, you know, almost all of our grain is, um, you know, he grows it down in the Tidewater region of Virginia, which is down close to the bay.

He, um, has a family-owned farm.

He's been, you know, number of generations down there.

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... a heritage form of rye that they used to use.

Um, down in the Tidewater region, they would grow it close to the dunes because it was tall enough to shelter some of the crops from the sea spray.

Right.

No question.

Now, uh, Newport News is home, right? And uh, you know, there are a lot of people that came out of that Tidewater area, a- as we know, a lot of good athletes.

And I remember following Allen Iverson when I was younger, and they would say how much of a great football player he was.

Oh, yeah.

NEW DISCOVERIES AT JAMESTOWN, SITE OF THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA BY JOHN L. COTTER AND J. PAUL HUDSON PRINTED IN WASHINGTON, D.C., 1957 PREFACE Jamestown, a name of first rank among historic names, saw the birth of English America.

Here on an island in the James River, in the heart of Tidewater, Virginia, the English carved a settlement out of the wilderness.

It grew from a rude, palisaded fort into a busy community, and then into a small town that enjoyed many of the comforts of daily living.

For thirteen years, until 1620, Virginia was the only English colony on the American mainland.

During archaeological explorations, fish hooks, lead net weights, fish gigs, and small anchors were uncovered.

These are reminders of a day when fish and shellfish were abundant in every tidewater Virginia creek, river, and bay.

Health.

Keeping well and healthy, even managing to stay alive in the unfamiliar Virginia wilderness during the first two decades of the Jamestown settlement, was no easy matter.