Adams Oyster Company

[3] By 1870, oystermen had planted themselves and their families on the peninsula between Chuckatuck Creek and the Nansemond River and drew a livelihood from the water.

[10][11] Charles Adams III worked for the company during this period, before being deployed to serve a tour of duty in the Vietnam War.

In March 1968, Charles Adams III and three other watermen drowned when the oyster boat Klondike capsized with all four men on board.

[1] The business activity had slowed by the end of the 1970s due to the decline of the oyster population and the Army Corps of Engineers construction of a dam on Carter's Clove Creek, which closed Hobson's direct outlet to Chuckatuck Creek and the James River.

[1][12] From the 1980s to the 2010s, the business remained registered as an active oyster farm with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission.