New Point Comfort Lighthouse

Historical marker location:

Port Haywood, Virginia

( Marker is at the intersection of Lighthouse Road (Route 600) and Old Bayside Drive (Virginia Route 14), on the right when traveling east on Lighthouse Road.)

Marker installed: 1996

The first successful English attempt to establish a colony in North America was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584 on Roanoke Island, off the coast of Virginia.