Mulberry Island

It was at Mulberry Island where the Jamestown colonists (fleeing Starving Time) were met by a June, 1610, supply mission of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, which saved the English settlers.

[5] Sir George Yeardley also held a 1,000 acre parcel on the south end of Mulberry Island (which would later be known as Stanley Hundred) as early as 1621, based on land patents.

The Virginia Company records state: "The numbers that were slaine in those severall Plantations” included six persons at Mulberry Island: Master Thomas Peirce, his wife, his child, John Hopkins, John Samon, and a “French boy"[8] The remaining men, women, and children who survived the attack abandoned Mulberry Island at that time.

During the first World War, Camp Abraham Eustis was established on the historic island and adjacent land in Warwick County, upstream from Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.

An array of ships part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet are anchored adjacent to Mulberry Island in the middle of the James River.