CHAPTER 509

An Act to require the State Library Board to have prepared and to erect
certain historical markers in the city of Chesapeake; and to make an

appropriation. CH 584]
Approved March 31, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

- §1. The State Library Board is hereby directed to have prepared
and to erect, prior to January one, nineteen hundred sixty-five, historical
markers in appropriate locations in the city of Chesapeake, bearing
substantially the following inscriptions:

One half mile west was the site of the Norfolk County Courthouse
from 1962 until the formation of the city of Chesapeake. Continuous court
records beginning with the year 1637 are preserved and maintained in
its clerk’s office.

Dismal Swamp Canal: Chartered by Legislative Act of Virginia and
North Carolina in 1787. Opened to traffic in June 1814. As a part of East
coast, Inland Waterway, it connects Chesapeake Bay with Albemarle

und.

In the fork of these roads stood The Second Southern Branch Chapel
or Great Bridge Chapel, erected about 1701 as a Chapel of Ease o
Elizabeth River Parish. In 1761 it became a Chapel of St. Bride’s Parish,
formed in that year, and in December, 1775, was held as a fort by the
Continental Forces against the British in The Early Revolutionary Battle
of Great Bridge. .. . The church building survived until about 1845.

Here stood The Colonial Saint Bride’s Parish Church, also known as
The Northwest Church. The parish was formed in 1761. The church was
erected in 1762 and survived until 1858.

2. There is hereby appropriated to the State Library Board out of the
general fund of the State treasury a sum sufficient, not exceeding eight
hundred dollars, for the purposes set forth in this act.