With its 400-year history and its contributing role in the forming of the nation, Williams Wharf Landing has always been a vibrant port, commercial hub, and cherished waterway asset of Virginia’s Middle Peninsula.
Williams Wharf has now been added by the National Park Service as a Chesapeake Gateways site—a network of places that provide visitors with opportunities to enjoy, learn about, and help protect the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
“We are pleased to receive this prestigious designation and put it towards advancing our core mission to preserve and protect waterway access for public use, benefit, and education,” said Mathews Land Conservancy president Bernadette La Casse. “With this designation, Mathews Land Conservancy joins a broad system of nearly 200 sites, trails, museums, parks, refuges, and communities across the six states and the District of Columbia within the watershed.”
The National Park Service provides financial and technical assistance through the Chesapeake Gateways Ne...