(Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on Urbanna swimming holes.)
The old “Urbanna Beach” that was located just down the shore from today’s Urbanna Town Marina was the place to go in the summertime in the 1930s, 40s and 50s!
The beach was the place where youngsters first learned that the crunching of sand “ain’t” so bad in a peanut butter and jelly sandwich; where they learned to swim from the dedicated hands of the late Bill Jones, who taught Red Cross swimming lessons to generations of town children; and where they were often covered in mud and sand as a cure for the sting from a stinging nettle.
