Cheap Things To Do in Cobbs Creek, Virginia

Inscription. (Obverse), Gloucester County: Area 223 Square Miles, Formed in 1651 from York, and named for Gloucester County, England. Bacon the Rebel died in this county, 1676. Gloucester Point was the outpost of Cornwallis at Yorktown, ... More on HMDB

Important antebellum courthouse in a charming courthouse square; unusual architectural design; continues its ... More on Virginia.org

Inscription. Mathews County was formed in 1790 from Gloucester County and named for Thomas Mathews, of Norfolk, a soldier of the Revolution who was then Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. ... More on HMDB

Inscription. One and a half miles north is the site of his home "Windsor" where he developed an excellent botanical garden. He was first president, Virginia Society for the Promotion of Useful Knowledge, and clerk of Gloucester County ... More on HMDB

The website for Lower United Methodist Church in Hartfield, Virginia. More on Lowerumc.org

Inscription. Built 1717, this was the second lower chapel of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County. It occupies the site of the first lower chapel of this parish, built before 1661 as the church o... More on HMDB

Inscription. Eight miles east, where the Rappahannock River joins Chesapeake Bay. Near there, in June, 1608, Captain John Smith, the explorer, was hurt by a stingray while fishing in the river. The point took its name from this incident. ... More on HMDB

Dr. Walter Reed, became known internationally for his discovery that yellow fever was spread through mosquito ... More on PlanetWare

Inscription. Dr. Walter Reed, Conqueror of Yellow Fever, born here 1851, given by, The Medical Society of Virginia, in 1968 to, Association for, The Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. , Erected... More on HMDB

Inscription. On the shore here General Andrew Lewis, commanding the Virginia forces, erected a battery facing a stockaded camp on Gwynn's Island established by Governor Lord Dunmore, July, 1776. The fire from this point, Cricket Hill, ... More on HMDB

In May of 1991 Mathews celebrated its 200th anniversary. The county, formed in 1791 from a portion of Gloucester, was named for then Speaker of the House Thomas Mathews of Norfolk. With more than 200 miles of shoreline on the Chesapeake ... More on Virginia.org

Inscription. Capt. John Smith led two exploratory voyages in Chesapeake Bay during the summer of 1608. His boat ran aground at the mouth of the Rappahannock River three miles east, on 17 July. While awaiting high tide to float the ... More on HMDB

Located in Mathews County on historic Gwynn's Island, the Gwynn's Island Methodist Church was originally built in 1890 on a site across the road from its current location. It was moved in the early 1980s and is now the Gwynn's Island ... More on Virginia.org