On Roads of Water
Within three days of reaching the New World, the first Jamestown colonists had assembled a small boat to go exploring in the roadless wilderness.
Once settled, they gathered raw materials of boat building for export as well as for their own use: hardwoods for masts, staves, and planks; pine trees for pitch, resin, and tar.
From their shallow boats, or “shallops,” the colonists harvested the teeming waters and traded along the shores of coastal Virginia.
Marker is on Loop Drive, on the left when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
