Chamberlain Hotel, Old Point Comfort Postcard

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chamberlain Hotel, Old Point Comfort Postcard

1908

Old Point Comfort is a point of land located in the independent city of Hampton. It lies at the extreme tip of the Virginia Peninsula at the mouth of Hampton Roads in the United States.
According to a combination of old records and legend, the name derived from an incident when the Jamestown settlers first arrived. Captain Christopher Newport's flagship, Susan Constant, anchored near by on 28 April 1607. Members of the crew "rowed to a point where they found a channel which put them in good comfort." They named the adjacent land Cape Comfort, now known as Old Point Comfort to differentiate it from New Point Comfort 21 miles (34 km) up the Chesapeake Bay.