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Norfolk & Atlantic Terminal Railway, 1904
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The following is from an early description (1904) of a ride over the Norfolk & Atlantic railway line, as it comes upon the Jamestown Exposition Site:
"...Fifteen minutes and through a miniature forest of pines there bursts upon the vision of the tourist a scene which is thrilling in its grandeur. This is Sewall’s Point, the selected site of the great Jamestown Ter-Centenary  Exposition, and you are on the only car line that reaches it. The long plateau stretches away to the sandy shores of the Hampton Roads, and from this location the traveler gets a picture unparalleled from a marine point of view in this country. Around him lies the yet unbroken ground of the exposition. The serrated shoreline now running far into the placid waters, or hollowing into dimpled bays or limpid lagoon. The thickly studded pines toss their tall heads in the restless wind, and the music of their whispers makes melody divine.
…At Sewall‘s Point we leave the car and two sturdy boats stand at their docks…."
(Norfolk Dispatch, Jamestown Exposition Edition, 1904, p.163)
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