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APPENDIX D:
TRAIL-RELATED RESOURCES
APPENDIX C:
Note: Appendix D is reprinted from the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail
Feasibility Study and Environmental Assessment (July 2006). The trail-related resources appear
in the study as Appendix C. The author is Project Historian John S. Salmon.
TRAIL-RELATED SOURCES
In the table on the following pages, the
blue-shaded rows list John Smith’s 1608
voyage stops as they are described in the draft
book “John Smith’s Chesapeake Voyages
1607-1609”, by Helen C. Rountree,
Wayne E. Clark, and Kent Mountford (draft
February 1, 2005). The 1608 date is shown in
the leftmost column and the place name in the
second column.
• Note that according to the book, the
meaning of the term “stop” varies
considerably. At some stops, the boat
landed and the crew disembarked to walk
and explore the land, or to meet with native
people living there, or to camp for the
night. Some stops were merely an
anchoring in a sheltered bay for one or
more nights, without touching land. Some
stops were not stops in the usual sense but
merely a water-based exploration of a
particular bay or creek before moving on.
• Note also that the naming of stops varies;
some are modern-day place names; some
are names of Smith’s time, either names he
assigned or tribal names. When known,
1608 names are italicized, unless the name
has remained the same to the present time.
• Note also that information on Smith’s
Potomac River exploration is much
sketchier and no dates are known.
Therefore the “stops” are labeled according
to geography rather than the date, and the
“Map ID Number” is merely a number
preceded by the letter “P” for Potomac.
Under each stop name, the white rows
(indented) list any nearby federal, state or local
public lands (as well as a few privately owned
sites that may be open to public use). This
includes National Parks, National Wildlife
Refuges, National Wildlife Management Areas,
state and local parks, municipal boat ramps,
etc. These are considered potential resources
to support the proposed trail.
The columns to the right of each of these
indicate whether the resource provides
restrooms, parking, public access to the water,
and whether the site offers potential to provide
information about and interpretation of the
proposed John Smith trail.
The federal and state lands are shown on the
inset maps, Maps 3 through 7. The boat
ramps are shown on Map 11.
The final four pages of the table provide a list
of Chesapeake Bay Gateway sites in proximity
to the proposed trail routes, Voyage 1 and
Voyage 2, with information about facilities and
interpretation potential. These sites are listed
not shown relative to voyage stops, but this
may be seen on Maps 3 through 7.