New Point Comfort

The tip New Point Comfort is now on an island separated from the mainland of Mathews County south of the unincorporated town of Bavon at the mouth of Mobjack Bay.

It is 21 miles (34 km) north of Old Point Comfort in Phoebus, Hampton.

English explorer John Smith passed by New Point Comfort in 1608 when returning to Jamestown from the northern Chesapeake Bay.

The New Point Comfort Light was built from 1802–1805 and by 1852, it was partially cut off by the sea and formed a new island.

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