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18-556: Mulberry Island was home to Native Americans for thousands of years before the English came to settle it in the 1600s. When Jamestown Island was established in 1607, many parts of the James River were mapped and patented . It was at Mulberry Island where the Jamestown colonists (fleeing Starving Time ) were met by a June, 1610, supply mission of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , which saved

36-512: A political consolidation of the former Warwick County with the independent city of Newport News , almost all of the base and all of Mulberry Island are located within the corporate limits of Newport News. An Army Aviation School is also located at Fort Eustis. An array of ships part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet are anchored adjacent to Mulberry Island in the middle of the James River. Considered an environmental hazard,

54-807: A sea. A piece of land on a very tight river bend or one between two rivers is sometimes said to form a peninsula, for example in the New Barbadoes Neck in New Jersey , United States. A peninsula may be connected to the mainland via an isthmus , for example, in the Isthmus of Corinth which connects to the Peloponnese peninsula. Peninsulas can be formed from continental drift , glacial erosion , glacial meltwater , glacial deposition , marine sediment , marine transgressions , volcanoes, divergent boundaries or river sedimentation. More than one factor may play into

72-585: Is located off Glasshouse Point , to which it is connected via a causeway to the Colonial Parkway . Much of the island is wetland , including both swamp and marsh . Prior to English settlement, the nearby area was home to the Paspahegh people, or Virginia Algonquians. In May 1607, the island (then a peninsula ) became site of James Fort , the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. The chief of

90-459: The Powatan at that time, also named Powhatan , was father of Pocahontas . After Powhatan's death in 1618, hostilities with colonists escalated under his brother, Opechancanough. His large-scale attacks in 1622 and 1644 met strong reprisals by the English, resulting in the near elimination of both the settlement and the tribe. After Bacon's rebellion in 1677, Jamestown lasted until 1699, when it

108-457: The English settlers. By 1614, thousands of acres were under cultivation with tobacco , the export crop introduced by John Rolfe which saved the Virginia Colony financially. In 1619, Mulberry Island was part of the plantation held by William Pierce , Rolfe's father-in-law. By the end of the century, Edward Digges owned a plantation on the island, and attempted to cultivate silkworms on

126-486: The camp had balloon observation school, and an artillery school that remained in operation through the end of World War II. Camp Eustis became Fort Eustis and a permanent Army base in 1923. In 2010, it was combined with nearby Langley Air Force Base to form Joint Base Langley–Eustis . Fort Eustis is currently home to the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). Since 1958, following

144-427: The early colonial settler period. 37°12′18″N 76°45′36″W  /  37.205°N 76.760°W  / 37.205; -76.760 This Virginia -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Peninsula A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most sides. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula in

162-489: The formation of a peninsula. For example, in the case of Florida , continental drift, marine sediment, and marine transgressions were all contributing factors to its shape. In the case of formation from glaciers (e.g., the Antarctic Peninsula or Cape Cod ), peninsulas can be created due to glacial erosion , meltwater or deposition . If erosion formed the peninsula, softer and harder rocks were present, and since

180-466: The glacier only erodes softer rock, it formed a basin . This may create peninsulas, and occurred for example in the Keweenaw Peninsula . In the case of formation from meltwater, melting glaciers deposit sediment and form moraines , which act as dams for the meltwater. This may create bodies of water that surround the land, forming peninsulas. If deposition formed the peninsula, the peninsula

198-637: The native mulberry trees. During the American Civil War , Mulberry Island was the southern end of the Warwick Line , a series of defensive works built across the Virginia Peninsula to Yorktown manned by troops of Confederate General John B. Magruder during the Peninsula Campaign of 1862. From 1898 to 1918, Mulberry Island was home to Davis & Kimpton Brickyard. The brickyard sat on

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216-556: The numbers of this reserve fleet are being reduced each year as ships are transported away as scrap. These ships are termed the "Idle Fleet" in local parlance. 37°06′55″N 76°35′25″W  /  37.11528°N 76.59028°W  / 37.11528; -76.59028 Jamestown Island Jamestown Island is a 1,561-acre (632 ha; 2.439 sq mi) island in the James River in Virginia , part of James City County . It

234-468: The sediment is deposited, forming a delta peninsula. Marine transgressions (changes in sea level) may form peninsulas, but also may affect existing peninsulas. For example, the water level may change, which causes a peninsula to become an island during high water levels. Similarly, wet weather causing higher water levels make peninsulas appear smaller, while dry weather make them appear larger. Sea level rise from global warming will permanently reduce

252-552: The volcano erupts near shallow water. Marine sediment may form peninsulas by the creation of limestone . A rift peninsula may form as a result of a divergent boundary in plate tectonics (e.g. the Arabian Peninsula ), while a convergent boundary may also form peninsulas (e.g. Gibraltar or the Indian subcontinent ). Peninsulas can also form due to sedimentation in rivers. When a river carrying sediment flows into an ocean,

270-516: The west bank of the Warwick River. Prior to its acquisition by the U.S. government for $ 538,000, Mulberry Island was primarily farmland. During the first World War, Camp Abraham Eustis was established on the historic island and adjacent land in Warwick County , upstream from Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company . Named for Abraham Eustis , a famous U.S. Army General from Petersburg ,

288-447: The world is the Arabian Peninsula . The word peninsula derives from Latin paeninsula , from paene  'almost' and insula  'island'. The word entered English in the 16th century. A peninsula is generally defined as a piece of land surrounded on most sides by water. A peninsula may be bordered by more than one body of water, and the body of water does not have to be an ocean or

306-465: Was abandoned in favor of a new site at Williamsburg . By the early 20th century, the isthmus connecting the landform to Glasshouse Point had eroded, making it a proper island. Today, most of the island is a part of Colonial National Historical Park , including Historic Jamestown . The rediscovery of the James Fort in 1996 by Jamestown Rediscovery has led to significant archaeological discoveries of

324-538: Was composed of sedimentary rock , which was created from a large deposit of glacial drift . The hill of drift becomes a peninsula if the hill formed near water but was still connected to the mainland, for example during the formation of Cape Cod about 23,000 years ago. In the case of formation from volcanoes, when a volcano erupts magma near water, it may form a peninsula (e.g., the Alaskan Peninsula ). Peninsulas formed from volcanoes are especially common when

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