Chap. 263.—An ACT to name and designate the bridge across the Mattaponi
river at or near the town of West Point, heretofore known as the Gresham
Bridge, the “Lord Delaware Bridge’. [H B 459]

Approved March 26, 1938

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That the
bridge across the Mattaponi river at or near the town of West Point
in King William county, on route four of the State highway system,
heretofore known as the Gresham bridge, be, and the same is hereby,
named and designated as the “Lord Delaware Bridge’, as a memorial
to Governor John West, the third member of his family to be Governor
of the colony of Virginia, and who was a kinsman of Lord Delaware
after whom the original town was named.