Turns out Mathews County, VA is interesting.
TourPods has 8 narrated audio stories about Mathews County — the hidden history, true crime, food legends, and local lore of its streets, told like a podcast about wherever you're standing.
Bethel Beach Natural Area Preserve
Where the Bay Gives Birds Room
A shifting Chesapeake shoreline becomes a refuge because people choose restraint.
New Point Comfort Lighthouse
The Lighthouse That Watched a Dangerous Passage
A calm-looking beacon with a far rougher story in the Chesapeake.
Mathews County
Where the Shoreline Learned to Keep Secrets
How Mobjack Bay’s shape invited quiet passage in the lower Chesapeake.
Bethel Beach Natural Area Preserve
The Little Hunter That Needs an Empty Beach
At Bethel Beach, bare sand is survival for a threatened predator.
Gwynn's Island
The Island Where Dunmore Ran Out of Virginia
A small island became the royal governor’s last stand in Virginia.
New Point Comfort Lighthouse
When the Shore Left the Lighthouse
A Virginia beacon that kept shining as the land slipped away.
New Point Comfort Light
The Lighthouse Both Sides Needed
A Civil War story about navigation, power, and a Chesapeake lighthouse.
Gwynn's Island
The Barrage That Broke Royal Virginia
How a mainland bombardment drove Dunmore from Gwynn’s Island.
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