In 1886 the " Old Point" came into service, a side wheeler, 160 feet long and 30 feet beam and went to Richmond, calling at Old Point Comfort and Newport News. Beginning in 1889 the passengers have since been landed at the freight house. The passengers at this time landed near the Superintendent's office where the waiting room was located. In 1885 the steamer " Cape Charles" was built to take the place of the "Jane Mosley." This boat was a large side wheeler with tracks on both sides to carry sleeping cars and continued on the run until 1889. About a month later the "Jane Mosley" on leaving the dock at Cape Charles ran into a large anchor holding a dredging boat and being made of wood had a hole punched into the bottom and sank in the harbor, but was repaired and continued in the service for some time. This young man continued in the service for a great many years and before he retired was Captain of various passenger steamers. On this boat as Quartermaster was a young man named Bob McGuire. Scott brought the "Jane Mosley" into the Cape Charles Harbor to see the conditions and this boat soon began its regular run to Norfolk. Tom Scott went up to Cherrystone Wharf and tied up for the night. In November 1884 the " Jane Mosley," a boat chartered by the railroad from Washington Steamboat Company, and commanded by Capt.
These were the only Superintendents to die during active service. Dunne succeeded him serving for several years and died in office. McConkey was the first Superintendent, committing suicide in about four weeks after assuming the position in the fall of 1884, and Mr. The passenger, mail and express trains began running in November, 1884. This was the first train to leave Cape Charles stopping every few hundred yards to pick up laborers who had been filling in the tracks and carrying these men to their bunk houses about four miles from the harbor. Keller, an official, my sisters, their house guests and I rode out on a construction train to Bay View Station. The Railroad track was completed to the Bay, on Saturday afternoon, October 25, 1884, just as the sun went down. Scott built wooden docks on the South side of the harbor and also three oysters houses, the North and East sides being used by the railroad. Ames, a farmer living near Cape Charles, is the only one now living so far as I know, who helped in the dredging for the harbor. The mud from this dredging was carried out and dumped in the Chesapeake Bay. In the same year 1883 dredging for the harbor began, but was not completed for two years. & N., the charter having been previously granted to Messrs, Cassett, Scott, Cartis Brothers, and others for said railroad. Scott deeded part of this acreage to the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad known as the N.
Tazewell an estate consisting of about 2650 acres at the cost of $55,000. Scott of Erie, Pennsylvania, bought from the heirs of the late Gov.
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