Mariner's Legacy

08/26/2023

02/16/2023

Definitely recommend when you are here on a Saturday

MATHEWS FARMERS MARKET
More than a market, it’s an experience!

The Mathews Farmers Market, sponsored by the Mathews Main Street Committee, will open for the 2023 season on Saturday, April 1st from 9 am to 1 pm.

Located on Court Street on the Historic Courthouse Green in Mathews County, Virginia, the market is open from 9 am to 1 pm each Saturday from April through October (except Saturday, during Mathews Market Days).

Food, flowers, and gifts galore! Our vendors feature a variety of fresh vegetables, along with homemade bread and bakery goods, eggs, and meat. In addition, our vendors offer plants, flowers (potted and bouquets), handmade crafts, clothing, and jewelry. You are also likely to find handmade ceramics, soaps, yarns, and various types of artwork.

Bring the entire family (including pets) for all to enjoy the pleasant social atmosphere. We also encourage everyone to check out the surrounding shops and restaurants in downtown Mathews, all within easy walking distance of the market.

02/09/2023

A great idea for a “girls weekend”

The quaint community of Ware Neck is the site of the Gloucester-Mathews County tour which features three private homes – an Antebellum mansion, a home in the style of a Lighthouse, and a more contemporary home. Also included is Belle Terre, a beautiful, expansive historic garden, as well as Ware Episcopal Church c. 1652, one of the oldest surviving parish churches in the Commonwealth, which serves as the tour headquarters, and Singleton United Methodist Church c. 1875. This is a shuttle-only tour.
Photo credit: Kevin Kelly

08/17/2022

See you next March at your nest!

Danger: Sad content coming 😔 The end of summer means the end of osprey visits to the Chesapeake Bay 😭

Often called the "osprey garden," the Chesapeake Bay has the most concentrated population of osprey in the world. Every spring (about mid-March), these quintessential Chesapeake birds travel thousands of miles to return to the same nests, where they reunite with their mate, breed, and fish for menhaden and other species. As this year's osprey fledglings become independent, adults begin to migrate to their wintering grounds in Central and South America. The juveniles will usually begin migrating during the last weeks of August.

BYE OSPREY, WE'LL MISS YOU!

📷: CBF Staff

07/01/2022

Come see what the 🎉🎉🎉 is about!

Chesapeake Bay Magazine awards Mathews County with several 2022 “Best of the Bay” Awards. Find out about the awards below and a few of the reasons to make Mathews a destination for your next weekend getaway! Mathews Ties with Yorktown “Most Charming Chesapeake Town” Contrasting towns tie for...

06/22/2022

Oh yeah!! But usually I see people out with their fishing rods instead of crab “dip nets”.

Happy First Day of Summer! There's nothing quite like this magic season on the Bay...

Photo by Sean Pelan.

06/13/2022

We definitely are seeing them more frequently, especially in the Mobjack Bay! Often we see the babies with their mothers also. 😍

Dolphins that visit the Chesapeake Bay in the summer have been listened to, photographed, identified by their dorsal fins and documented in a crowd-sourced app for going on five years.

06/02/2022

Blue herons are daily vistors to our shoreline. And if you’re lucky, you might get to see the youngsters!

05/21/2022

We see bald eagles all the time at Mariner’s Legacy. Especially since we have a pair of nesting Ospreys and bald eagles are lazy hunters and will steal from the ospreys in a heart beat!

The bald eagle has a pretty amazing comeback story. This iconic bird went from only 487 nesting pairs in 1963 to nearly 10,000 nesting pairs in 2007, when it was officially removed from the federal list of endangered species.

Still, there are many other creatures in the Chesapeake Bay watershed that need our help, including the Atlantic sturgeon, American eels, and freshwater mussels. Cleaning up our waterways and providing healthy habitats for these native species are crucial ways that we can protect their populations for generations to come.

📷: Kevin Moore

05/04/2022

This is sooo much fun!

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03/26/2022

Join John Page Williams as he reveals how tropical storm Agnes led to a better understanding of the traveling life of baby Chesapeake Bay blue crabs.

03/24/2022

Lined seahorses rely on the Bay's underwater grass beds for food, shelter, and a place to breed.

03/23/2022

02/28/2022

“I think they see that there's a tangible result to work. And they get a real sense of a connection between the land and what's happening in the water."

So true, my friend, so true.

In his 40 years at CBF’s Clagett Farm, Michael Heller has transformed the way we think about food, farms, and the connection between our lands and waters.

02/24/2022

Wow

Even in winter, the Bay is very much alive. Juvenile humpback whales hang out in Virginia's nearshore waters from November to early March—though whales once made it as far north as Annapolis! https://bit.ly/3sEtaYM

📷: Brian Lockwood

02/23/2022

Male ospreys have been sighted in Mathews! Let the nest rebuilding begin ❤️

Happy ✌️

📷: Walter Dorsett

02/23/2022

Beautiful homes and gardens right on our East River! Definitely recommend ❤️

Spend your day in Mathews, voted one of the "Coolest Small Towns in America," at the Historic Garden Week tour in Gloucester/Mathews County on Saturday, April 23. Tour four historic properties, all close to each other and downtown, including an elegant home surrounded by expansive gardens built by a shellfish tycoon, and classic 19th century sea captain homes. Online tickets available at https://www.vagardenweek.org/tickets/

Historic Garden Week in Gloucester VA
Photo credit: Sandy Geiger

09/30/2021

If you haven’t been to Mathews, then you definitely need to find out just how cool (and beautiful) it is!

There's nowhere quite like this coastal, colorful small town. Here's more on what makes Mathews such a unique town in Virginia.

08/26/2021

Put in at Town Point Landing or Williams Wharf in Mathews to enjoy the scenery on the East River, a showcase for a number of Maritime Heritage Sites, including an old mill. If you’re an advanced paddler, consider kayaking up and back to the entrance of Mobjack Bay. You can also start your journey at Put-in Creek (what’s in a name?), adjacent to the historic Mathews Courthouse with shops and dining. If you choose this route, it is preferable at high tide.

Don's miss these 10 spots to kayak, canoe or stand up paddle board on the Middle Peninsula in rural coastal Virginia.

08/09/2021

Definitely worth visiting while at Mariner’s Legacy!

Martin Gallivan, professor and chair of William & Mary’s Department of Anthropology, was a consultant in the design of Machicomoco State Park.