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Island Drive

Island Drive is a small road in Jamestown, Virginia. The road, which is a part of Colonial National Historical Park, has a three-mile short route, and a five mile long route. [1] It shows the natural environment that was encountered by the original Jamestown settlers, with large oil paintings depicting activities of the early colonists, including tobacco growing, farming, pottery, and lumbering. [2]

Island Drive resembles the natural landscape of the settlers who founded the landscape. [3] It transverses 1559.5 acres of marsh and woodlands. [4]

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References

  1. Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (2007). Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown: the official guide to America's historic triangle. Singapore. ISBN   978-0-87935-230-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. Guide to Virginia. Rand McNally and Company. 1981. ISBN   9780528845406.
  3. Bulkin, Rena (1988). Washington, D. C. and Historic Virginia on Forty Dollars a Day. Prentice Hall. ISBN   9780139444302.
  4. Quarterly of the Central Texas Genealogical Society, Volumes 8-10. Central Texas Genealogical Society. 1965. p. 10.

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