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More of historic interest centers about the lower end of the Virginia Peninsula than about any other spot in this country. Here are Jamestown and Williamsburg and Yorktown. Here are Fortress Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Newport News, and Hampton Roads. Between Capes Charles and Henry came the ship that bore the first English colonists; still later entered another craft bearing a cargo of black humanity and again, centuries afterward, there steamed through these same Capes that strange looking vessel, the Monitor, with its antagonist, the armor-plated Merrimac, which revolutionized all naval warfare.

On this peninsula John Smith worked out a system of industrial training for whites that made Colonial life possible, insisting that in the Jamestown Colony, unless a man would work, neither should he eat. Here, many years later, General Armstrong, as one has said, "recognized and utilized the economic and moral value of industrial processes, making clear to the people of this country and to the world that no educa-