Gum Thicket


Advance tickets can also be ordered by mail from Mrs. William DuPaul, P.O. Box 42, Ware Neck, VA 23178, (804) 693-6742, waresjaye@aol.com. Send check for $25 per ticket, plus $1.50 for postage and handling payable to Garden Club of Gloucester by Saturday, April 2. For Internet tickets, please access www. VAGardenweek.org. For all Gloucester/Mathews tour details and full directions to each site, visit http://www.vagardenweek. org/schedule-gloucester.php.


A box lunch in Gloucester is available at Short Lane Ice


Cream. It must be ordered and pre-paid by Thursday, April 14. Send check for $13.50 per lunch to Short Lane Ice Cream, P.O. Box 115, Ware Neck, VA 23178, (804) 695-2999. A seated luncheon at White Dog Inn in Mathews is by reservation only by Tuesday, April 12, $24, (804) 725-7680. Other points of interest on the tour are Rosewell, c. 1725,


impressive ruins of birthplace of Gov. John Page, burned in 1916; Short Lane Ice Cream, c. 1937, once a post office, country store and Texaco gas station; Gloucester Mathews Humane Society, celebrating its 100th


anniversary in a state of


the art new facility; Zion Poplars Baptist Church, c. 1894, first independent Baptist Church built by and for African- Americans, Virginia Landmarks site; Gloucester Historic Court Circle, Main Street, Gloucester Courthouse; The Gloucester Museum of History, c. 1770, on the Historic Court Circle; Gwynn’s Island Museum, depicting history of the island, Gwynn’s Island; Tompkins Cottage, c. 1815, Mathews Court House, general store owned by father of Capt. Sally Tompkins, first woman to be commissioned an officer in the Confederate Army. H


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