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Near this site on February 26, 1925, the ferry Captain John Smith began the first automobile ferry service crossing the James River. Captain Albert F. Jester inaugurated the service and owned and operated it until it was sold to the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1945. The ferry system provided an important link for travelers going from Maine to Florida through Surry County to Jamestown Island, the site of the first permanent English settlement in America.
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