Existing comment:
The marker says:
Capt. Christopher Newport
John Smith
Gabriel Archer
Hon. George Percy
With gentlemen, mariners, soldiers numbering twenty-one explored James River to the falls and set up a cross Whitsunday, May 24th, 1607.
This monument is presented to the city of Richmond by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, June 10th 1907.
Dei Gratia Virginia Condita." |