Senate OKs bill for all-water trail
Peter Hardin
December 09, 2006

U.S. House votes to honor Capt. Smith’s travels

WASHINGTON — The next stop for a bill to establish a National Historic Trail in the Chesapeake Bay honoring Capt. John Smith will be President Bush’s desk.

The Senate approved Thursday (12-7) a House-passed bill by Rep. Jo Ann Davis, R-1st District, creating the first all-water trail in the National Park Service system.

The bill will permit the trail to be ready for the 2007 commemoration of the founding of Jamestown 400 years ago, said Sen. John W. Warner, R-Va.

“It will connect Virginians and Americans to one of the earliest chapters of our heritage, allowing us to retrace the paddle strokes and footsteps of Captain John Smith,” Warner said in a statement.

The bill recognizes a series of water routes traveled by Smith and extending 3,000 miles in the bay and its tributaries in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the District of Columbia.

Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes, D-Md., sponsored a Senate version of the bill, which Virginia’s senators supported.

Peter Hardin is the Washington correspondent for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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