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A Land Between Waters: Reviving a Black Township on the Chesapeake Bay |
| Section: CULTURE / HERITAGE |
| Author: Peter Holden |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 1,453 Words, 9,209 Characters |
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Burton's home is one of fifty-two shacks in this traditionally black settlement. Bayview sits on a peninsula that juts between the Chesapeake and the Atlantic. It is located just five miles north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, which connects the Eastern Shore to the rest of Virginia.
Sixteenth-century English colonists learned that local Indian tribes called the area "the land between the waters." But the bucolic stillness belies the economic hardship that exists here. Bayview is one in a string of Eastern Shore communities settled by freed slaves after the Civil War. But, in a state whose economy hums with the promise of the next century, it has slowly sunk into abject poverty.
Bayview's 114 residents are among the most impoverished in Virginia's Northampton County. About 28 p...
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...leaders, and county officials, at a recent dedication of the new drinking wells. "The people of the Eastern Shore need to leave here today holding hands, trying to get something done, instead of looking at our problems as a fight between black and white, or between right and wrong," she stated. "I like to think that [in rebuilding the community] we are building bridges and not building walls."
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