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What was Old Point Comfort? October 24 2014

On this map of early United States territorial grants, only one point is labeled: Old Point Comfort, on the East Coast, right where Virginia and North Carolina meet. Why? Old Point Comfort lies at the southeast tip of the Virginia Peninsula. Its name came from an early group of Jamestown settlers, who anchored their ship nearby and "rowed to a point where they found a channel which put them in good comfort." (The...